Good to see a pundit admit the truth about the Civil War

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Judge Napolitano: I think War Between the States was fought over the issue of federal dominance. I think slavery was not the reason for the War Between the States. I think that Lincoln was a dictator who was terrified that by the loss of tariffs from southern ports – about 55 million dollars a year in 1860. It was a huge portion of the federal government's income, which consisted at the time of tariffs, user fees and land sales. It was the loss of those ports that caused Lincoln to wage war against the states. I don't think it was the Constitution that facilitated war. I think it was monster government that facilitated the War Between the States. I think slavery would have been eradicated on its own, much as it had been in Puerto Rico and Brazil and Portugal and Great Britain and even years earlier in western Europe.

Now if he could just start educating Glenn Beck.

The truth spoken by a man with a large megaphone might be able to help return us to the greatness our founders left to us.

 

[hoodooman]

He sounds like my fifth grade teacher who told us that if we wrote that slavery was a reason for the civil war then she would fail us.

 

[frogtrader]

All Lincoln wanted to do was contain slavery. He knew slavery was obsolete and inefficient and would peter out on it's own. They were reasonable people.
It was the slavocrats who wanted to expand it west and create a bunch of pro slave states, and nationalize slavery in America.
Lincoln was right. The future of America was freedom, not slavery. It could not be both. 'A house divided upon itself cannot stand.' The slavocrats decided to fight it out. And they lost.
The slavocratic armies of the confederacy invaded the north twice, and also invaded the west. They were intent on conquering the entire west and instituting slavery there. They wanted to conquer all the border states as well. perhaps even the whole continent, for slavery. They could not be reasoned with; like a beast, they had to be utterly defeated to be subdued.

 

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Quote from frogtrader:

All Lincoln wanted to do was contain slavery.

What a bunch of crap.

He even knew the easiest and most peaceful way to do that would have been to just accept the right of self determination (succession).

or


Maybe a rational non vindictive person would see extortionist tariffs as counter productive for the citizens of the United States as a whole.


But No ,he needed War and dictatorial powers to install his corrupt crony capitalism and eliminate any vestige of political opposition.

 

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Quote from frogtrader:

He knew slavery was obsolete and inefficient and would peter out on it's own. They were reasonable people.

So these reasonable people manipulated events so as to start and continue a war which would be the bloodiest and most destructive event in our history. Yeah that sounds about like the lies (or is that Gross incompetence) purported by our federal govt.

Even propaganda sites admit

It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

You just prove that gullible people will buy any story no matter how ridiculous as long as delivered by persons in the position of authority.

 

[FightTheFuture]

Yeah, man. Pure politics. Lincoln only wanted to economically and politically weaken the slave-owning Democrats and replace their free labor with expensive free market labor. That's why the Dems are still bitter.

 

[Arnie]

All wars are about economics. The Civil War was no different.
To say the Civil War was all about slavery is as ridiculous as saying slavery had nothing to do with it.

 

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Quote from Arnie:

All wars are about economics. The Civil War was no different.
To say the Civil War was all about slavery is as ridiculous as saying slavery had nothing to do with it.

Well enforcing abolition certainly had nothing to do with the imperial federal govt's position at the start of the civil war.