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The Civil War, and the period preceding it, sort of put the lie to any attempt to idealize the states as somehow a more pure, less-corrupt or less-oppressive pl
by ubernostrum 10y ago
The Civil War, and the period preceding it, sort of put the lie to any attempt to idealize the states as somehow a more pure, less-corrupt or less-oppressive place to put government power.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoLincoln put it best - half-slave and half-free won't work. They were legally immiscible ( unmixable ). The abuse of "states rights" in text by Southrun Lost Causers is invalid and should be discarded - the Fugitive Slave Act and the Dred Scott decision clearly showed that they wanted Federal enforcement of that "state's right". You have the emerging legal unsustainability of this, coupled with slaves being the only asset of value left in the South. So, war, war.