In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana convene to establish the Confederate States of America.
As early as 1858, the ongoing conflict between the North and the South over the issue of slavery led Southern leadership to discuss a unified separation from the United States. By 1860, the majority of the slave states were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans, the anti-slavery party, won the presidency. Following Republican Abraham Lincoln’s victory over the divided Democratic Party in November 1860, South Carolina immediately initiated secession proceedings.
On December 20, its legislature passed the “Ordinance of Secession,” which declared that “the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.” After the declaration, South Carolina set about seizing forts, arsenals, and other strategic locations within the state. Within six weeks, five more Southern states had followed South Carolina’s lead.
In February 1861, representatives from the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to formally establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. On February 9, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was elected the Confederacy’s first president.
By the time Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated in March 1861, Texas had joined the Confederacy, and federal troops held only Fort Sumter in South Carolina, Fort Pickens off the Florida coast, and a handful of minor outposts in the South. On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Bay. Within two months, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee had all joined the embattled Confederacy.
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You lie.
http://www.thetribunepapers.com/2014/01/05/true-causes-of-the-uncivil-war-understanding-the-morrill-tariff/
“The Northern onslaught upon slavery is no more than a piece of specious humbug disguised to conceal its desire for economic control of the United States.”
Charles Dickens
Thanks for posting that article.
Yeah, if the war was about slavery, why three years into the war did the Emancipation Proclamation only free Southern slaves?
The order was under his authority as commander in chief of the military. He lacked executive authority to emancapate slaves in the Union States. Also, it was largely a political move to make it impractical for Britain to side with or support the Confeferacy.
“Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do….”
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
George Washington
“[T]he contest is really for empire on the side of the North, and for independence on that of the South, and in this respect we recognize an exact analogy between the North and the Government of George III, and the South and the Thirteen Revolted Provinces. These opinions…are the general opinions of the English nation.”
London Times, November 7, 1861
“Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.”
Robert E. Lee, addressing his soldiers at Appomattox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtOtj8dct_I
Do it again. Secede that is… Texit
https://youtu.be/-jtqDbH4a3E
The South had every right to withdraw from the Union. If there is someone out there who can point to a single sentence in the Constitution that prohibits the States from withdrawing themselves from the US I would like to see it.
The founding document of our country the DOI in fact states quite clearly that it is the right of any people to abandon any government which does not represent their best interests. Lincoln was clearly a tyrant, and the US has not been a free country since Lincoln.
Them ol’ slaves were property and nothing more. The jews who got rich off of slave trade should have been
rounded up and forced to return the slaves to their ancestral country. What’s that old saying:
The White man built it.
The jew owns it, and
The black enjoys it.
See The Corwin Amendment. Both Houses voted for it and President Lincoln was prepared to sign it. It prohibited Congress from ever interfering with slavery in any State. Had the South been Seceding over slavery this Amendment would have given them reason to stay in the Union. The South still choose to secede, proving slavery was not the issue.