Marcus Johnson

Another Internet tough guy! LOL!
FXCKING GROW UP MORON!

Does your mom know you're on her computer again?

Fxcking idiot :thumbdown:

moldyoldy

moldyoldy

Just like today, the ignorant being led by the kochs, against their own interests. The poor southerners supported the plantation aristocracy.
should win the election in 1860.

The South was committed to an agrarian way of life. It was a land where profitable and efficient plantations worked by slave labor produced cotton for the world market. It was also a land where a majority of its white population was made up of subsistence farmers who lived isolated lives on the edge of poverty and whose literacy rates were low compared with those in the more densely populated North.

The South nevertheless was beginning to industrialize, a factor that added to the social tensions surfacing during the 1850s between the haves–plantation owners and professional groups in the few urban centers–and the have-nots–an increasingly restive yeoman or small-farmer group. But the issue of black servitude provided cohesion for the white bloc and contributed greatly to a patriarchal system wherein the masses of the whites still looked to a planter-professional elite for political and social guidance. Although the northern masses might also defer to the opinions of the powerful and living conditions among the urban poor were precarious, educational levels were far higher than in the South. The ethic of free capital and free labor was deeply ingrained in the cities and in farm communities as well. It was this ethic that formed the ideological basis for a broad antislavery movement.

Southern leaders were concerned over internal stresses in their society and were increasingly aware of the moral and social repugnance the slave system engendered not only in the North but also in Western Europe. Southern leadership, though surely not unified in its response to a political victory of antislavery forces in 1860, began as early as 1858 to prepare its section for separation from the Union.

Even though the Republican platform of 1860 disavowed any move that would interfere with slavery where the custom and the law of a given state upheld it, many of the more extreme opinion makers in the South promoted the idea that a Republican victory meant eventual emancipation and social and political equality for their black population. So inflamed were the voters in South Carolina that before the election of Lincoln, they had chosen a convention that was committed to secession on news of a Republican victory. The situation of other states in the Deep South was more complicated. Elections were held promptly, but the results showed considerable division on secession. Three factions emerged: those for immediate secession, those who sought delay until the policy of the new administration toward the slave states became clear, and those who believed they could bargain with the new administration. All these groups, however, were united in support of the doctrine of secession. With this idea as a basic commitment, the better organized immediate secessionists were able to prevail.

The close connection between the right to revolution and separation from the governing power in the spirit of 1776 was an early theme in the provisional Confederacy. To be sure, the revolution was posited as a peaceful one. Separation from a Union perceived to be under the control of a tyrannical power that would destroy southern institutions was the objective.

Confederate leaders at this early date thought that the North would not fight to preserve the Union. But the provisional government nevertheless began purchasing arms and munitions, and seceded states started to equip and train their militias.

State and Confederate government authorities seized federal forts, arsenals, and other national property within their jurisdiction. When Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, federal troops held only Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, Fort Pickens off the Florida coast, and one or two other outposts in the South.

Concerned about the loyalty of the border states of Virginia, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky, the new administration went so far as to offer the slave states an amendment to the Constitution that would guarantee slavery where it legally existed. Lincoln himself in his inaugural address pledged only to hold federal property that was in the possession of the Union on March 4, 1861.

The provisional Confederacy likewise sought vigorously to stimulate secession sentiment in the border states. Had all the border slave states thrown in their lot with one or the other government, there might not have been a war, or conversely, separation might well have become an accomplished fact. As it was, however, the prompt action of the Lincoln administration after the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter secured Maryland and Delaware for the Union. Kentucky proclaimed its neutrality but eventually remained loyal to the Union. Missouri, too, though a major battleground for the contending forces, contributed most of its resources in men and matériel to the Union.

Once the war was joined, waves of patriotic sentiment swept over North and South. Vocal political opposition would exist on both sides, but it was never strong enough to overthrow either government. Secession as revolution, an early theme in southern rhetoric, was not emphasized after the formation of the Confederacy. Rather, Jefferson’s compact theory was enshrined in its Constitution. A nation could not have been formed, nor a war fought, if the states were wholly independent of any central authority.

Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

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I disagree with "The Slavery Issue", the North & lincoln used Slavery as "part of the excuse" to force The South's hand...

States rights per the Northers take was the right to keep Slaves, and one more time the Northern Democrats, Wiggs & New Republican Party had an issue all could agree on, Slavery was bad and thus the South was bad and needed to be punished, via higher tariffs and taxes and attitude of submission...

Overly simplified but gives a broader reason for The North's invasion of The South...

I do agree that the Democrats support and engage in Slavery today, via Welfare...

Rufus Loc: Deep South

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Comment Loc: California

The only ignorant posts are the ones you post. I hate your socialistic ideology. It appears to me that your frame of reference comes from a welfare recipient. You are the epitome of the enemy of America. A Communist. Khrushchev said "we will bury you." You are the "we" in his statement.

Rufus Loc: Deep South

Amen. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Comment Loc: California

I might add: That Negros and Caucasians love being slaves. While ambitious people work, welfare recipients lay in bed all day, have sex, make babies, watch TV and eat ice cream all on the backs of working people. Being a slave is a good thing. Slavery has been redefined. in the old day slaves had to work dawn to dusk. In return for their labor they received food and lodging. Today they receive food and lodging and a sum to spend at casinos and buy a car and they don't have to work for it. There is no mistake; working people are slaves to welfare recipients and the massive Federal Government whose Congress, Courts, president and bureaucrats make themselves multiple millionaires while in gov. all the while congratulating themselves for their sacrifice to government service. Low information voters must feel sorry for them and continue to vote them back into office so they can continue to dole out welfare to them .Politician will never surrender their positions and welfare people will not surrender theirs until the US can borrow any more and nobody gets a gov check. Greece to grease. The gov will take all savings. What then? How can any conservative love the beast Bruce Kennedy who wants to destroy the country?

Rufus Loc: Deep South

Yep. Balack Hussein Osama is the largest slave master in American history. Pure Evil.

cesspool jones Loc: atlanta

Very good post...spot on. By the way, Bruce will make a good target the same as all these gave-up-on-everything assholes on OPP

Rufus Loc: Deep South

I wish Bill O'Reily would write a sequel to his book. This one could be about Bruce. He could call it, " Killing Kennedy Two - A Blessing On America "
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Nickolai

This piece is reminiscent of the kind of speeches Adolph was making as the Nazi party rose to prominence in the 1920's and 30's

Rufus Loc: Deep South

Quite the opposite.

cesspool jones Loc: atlanta

Do you realize that future salvation for this country will come from the south? Take your made up racist bullshit and pound sand you pathetic litto boy

Comment Loc: California

Ruf: you are too funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!