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ependence thomas dilorenzo tuesday december 7 2021 the why of the civil war the why of the war by samuel ashwood as woke education gains more and more of a foothold it becomes nearly impossible to hold an intelligent conversation about the american civil war many maybe most americans especially those attending university have been convinced that the war was about slavery slavery slavery of course those who have looked a little more deeply into the matter realize there are some fundamental flaws with this line of argumentation if the war was about nothing but slavery why were there more slave states in the union than in the confederacy when fort sumter was fired on if the war was about nothing but the preservation of slavery then why didn t the seceding states rejoin the union in early 1861 and ratify the original lincoln endorsed 13th amendment corwin amendment which would have guaranteed the protection of slavery in perpetuity if the war was over nothing but slavery why did both the united states congress and abraham lincoln himself avow in public declarations that the war was not about slavery but the preservation of the union but there is another question that far too seldom is asked which should be at the root of every conversation of this great american calamity try to talk about the origins of the war today and invariably somebody will begin citing the causes of secession put forth by the seven cotton states all of which named the protection of slavery as a decisive factor for their departure from the union for some reason americans have allowed themselves to be convinced that the act of secession is the same as a declaration of war of course it is not there were in fact nearly four months between the first act of secession by south carolina and the firing on fort sumter which precipitated the war even at that the bloodless reduction of sumter by confederate forces under p g t beuaregard by no means need have started a war after all other nations engage in border skirmishes where people are killed frequently without full fledged war breaking out north and south korea china and india to name a couple but american soldiers and the american flag were fired on yes and zero casualties were incurred on january 3 2020 president donald trump had iranian leader qassem soleimani killed by drone strike in retaliation iran fired missiles at a us base and injured multiple american soldiers in other words far more damage was done than was done to us forces than at fort sumter and yet there was no invasion of iran in response while it is important to know why the southern states seceded when we consider the war the far more important question is this why did lincoln choose coercion instead of negotiation and reconciliation it is the question that no modern historians seem interested in asking or answering why doubtless because the answer if provided honestly would reveal some truths that americans weaned on the milk of righteous cause mythology would not want to hear ask yourself the question in what way would the north have been damaged if the seven cotton states had been allowed to depart in peace we know by the admission of lincoln and the us congress that they waged war for union not to end slavery so we can rule out humanitarian motives why then did lincoln call for 75 000 troops to invade and subjugate the south the answer is money if the southern states whose cotton was a major staple of the world economy at that time created a free trade zone european trade would have fled northern ports and their high tariffs for the south the results for the economy of the united states would have been disastrous without a drastic change in economic policy that would have undermined everything the republican party stood for whether lincoln ever cried out when asked why he seemed intent on choosing war what about my tariff or not it is clear that this was a primary factor in the northern decision to go to war in 1861 wars are not fought over righteous moral indignation by one side against another whether slavery or firing on the flag these things may serve to galvanize the population behind a war but governments go to war for money or power lincoln s choice was based on the economic and political disaster facing the north if a free trade zone was created in the south to complete with the high tariff northern ports instead of negotiating peacefully to restore the states to the union or adjusting their economic policies to compete with the south lincoln chose a war that would take almost a million lives and do social and political damage we are still living with today posted by stogie at 12 25 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels civil war righteous cause myth secession why the north dared not try jefferson davis for treason the boston daily adviser july 25 1865 stated exactly what was on the line if jefferson davis is innocent then it is the government of the united states which is guilty if secession has not been rebellion then the north in stifling it as such has committed a crime that the question was even asked tells us that the legality of secession was at minimum an open question how then could jeff davis be convicted of treason the north wanted legal vindication of its trial by battle in a trial by court but recognized the stakes were high and vindication far from certain the press in new york city was insisting that no treason had taken place and jeff davis was merely obeying an order of his rightful sovereign the state of mississippi the new york world asserted to submit the secession question to a court is to imply that it is still open to doubt the paper then concluded that even if the court did decide that secession is a constitutional right unionists would not yield their convictions on this subject therefore the paper concluded the trial of mr davis is little better than a judicial farce new york world may 16 1866 harpers weekly noted the possibility of acquittal which if happened would mean the us government had waged war against those whom the courts would have justified in their actions harpers weekly may 26 1866 the chief justice of the pennsylvania supreme court g w woodward wrote but is secession treason that s a grand question if it is not war in support of it cannot be it will have to be defined and made plain unless indeed we continue to set aside all law and administer only drumbeat justice g w woodward to jeremiah black may 28 1865 lincoln knew his claims about secession s illegality were not certain and therefore hoped jeff davis would escape he told gen sherman i m bound to oppose the escape of jeff davis but if you could manage to have him slip out unbeknownst like i guess it wouldn t hurt me much sherman interview new york times july 4 1865 jeff davis believed a trial would vindicate the confederate cause for this reason he steadfastly refused to apply for a pardon his private secretary wrote to his mother he has all along earnestly desired a trial confident the world and posterity would see the thing in its right light burton harrison to his mother june 13 1866 in light of the uncertainty regarding the illegality of secession us attorney general james speed received pressure from all angles including sec of state seward and sec of war stanton to try davis in a way that would ensure his conviction at all costs sen james doolittle proposed a bill that would manipulate the qualifications of jurors to ensure they could be counted on to convict him representative william lawrence introduced a bill that was a potential violation of the constitution when warned he declared himself willing to go to the very verge of the constitution congressional globe 39th congress 2nd sess 12 11 1866 when an indictment was returned against davis based on thin testimony the new york daily news protested that the prosecution had rigged the proceedings by selecting a grand jury predisposed against him the new york daily news may 12 1866 in charging the grand jury the judge in the case john c underwood made it clear he thought davis guilty prompting one courtroom observer to remark if he and his packed jury of ferrets and yankees were to be permitted to have anything to do with mr davis he would have but a slim chance for justice new york times may 12 1866 david powell to elizabeth dabney saunders june 8 1866 when asked if he could pack a jury to convict davis judge underwood responded i could pack a jury to convict him i know very earnest ardent union men in virginia report of the joint committee on reconstruction 1866 testimony of john c underwood obviously the north was plagued by a culture of lawlessness is it any wonder the south sought to secede and sought to do so not because of slavery tariffs internal spending bounties centralization or any other numerous complaints they levied against the north these were all symptoms of a more fundamental reason for secession northern infidelity to the legal compact that held the states in union the south simply sought independence from a section of states that had a long history of a culture of lawlessness posted by stogie at 11 41 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels jefferson davis legality of seceddion treason monday december 6 2021 the north s involvement in slavery complicity how the north promoted prolonged and profited from slavery complicity uncovers north s ties to slavery slavery in the south has been documented in volumes ranging from exhaustive histories to bestselling novels but the north s profit from indeed dependence on slavery has mostly been a shameful and well kept secret until now in this startling and superbly researched new book three veteran new england journalists de mythologize the region of america known for tolerance and liberation revealing a place where thousands of people were held in bondage and slavery was both an economic dynamo and a necessary way of life complicity reveals the cruel truth about the triangle trade of molasses rum and slaves that lucratively linked the north to the west indies and africa discloses the reality of northern empires built on profits from rum cotton and ivory and run in some cases by abolitionists and exposes the thousand acre plantations that existed in towns such as salem connecticut here too are eye opening accounts of the individuals who profited directly from slavery far from the mason dixon line including nathaniel gordon of maine the only slave trader sentenced to die in the united states who even as an inmate of new york s infamous tombs prison was supported by a shockingly large percentage of the city patty cannon whose brutal gang kidnapped free blacks from northern states and sold them into slavery and the philadelphia doctor samuel morton eminent in the nineteenth century field of race science which purported to prove the inferiority of african born black people a startling new history exposes the plantations slave ships and rebellions in the north upending the notion that slavery was a peculiarly southern institution in 1641 massachusetts became the first colony to recognize slavery by statute four years later a boston ship made one of the earliest known slave voyages from new england to africa by the late 1700s tens of thousands of blacks were living as slaves in the north complicity shows just how integral slavery was to the region s economy the scope of the north s involvement with slavery is staggering to anyone raised with the notion that slavery was limited to the south in the mid 1800s charles sumner a bay state abolitionist railed against the unholy alliance between the cotton planters and flesh mongers of louisiana and mississippi and the cotton spinners and traffickers of new england between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom in 1861 the mayor of new york suggested the city long a hub of illegal slave trade secede from the union in large part so cotton trade with the south could continue complicity grew out of the hartford courant s investigation of slavery throughout connecticut the reporters discovered that more than 5 000 africans were enslaved in connecticut during the year before the american revolution now three courant veterans have produced a rich history of slavery in the north that adds new dimensions to what you might have learned in school the successful voyage of a slave ship was 10 times as profitable as an ordinary trading voyage from new england to the west indies rhode island entered the slave trade in a big way shipping nearly 50 000 slaves in less than 20 years by the mid 18th century plantations in the narragansett area matched the plantations of virginia s tidewater region in acreage and numbers of slaves for more than a century ivoryton and deep river conn were an international center for milling elephant tusks into piano keys as many as 2 million enslaved africans carried tusks hundreds of miles to the coast so the tusks could be shipped to america two industry leaders were abolitionists who ignored the contradiction between their business and their politics complicity joins a number of books published over the past year that have taken a closer look at slavery runaway america benjamin franklin slavery and the american revolution by david waldstreicher analyzes franklin s history as an indentured servant and later in life a slaveholder new york burning liberty slavery and conspiracy in eighteenth century manhattan by jill lepore examines the fires of new york city in 1741 to which complicity devotes a chapter the fires were thought to be a slave rebellion and 30 slaves were executed unlike the tighter focus of those two books complicity ranges across a wide swath of territory and time this is the book s weakness as well as its strength each chapter moves to a new place and another facet of the north s entanglement with slavery a reader can be forgiven for feeling that this is history for the fast paced mtv generation yet the sheer volume of numbers and narratives from northern states brings home the extent to which slavery was a part of everyday life in a region largely defined by its antipathy toward the institution much of what s in complicity was gleaned from old newspapers and more than 100 period drawings photos and documents bring a sense of immediacy to the storytelling this is history at its best a story not only of the government officials who made front page news but a story of the fugitive slaves for whom a bounty was offered in the classified ads most americans learn that slavery was a southern institution but in fact many enslaved africans were held and worked in the north many northern industries and businesses shipbuilding ports banks insurance companies textile mills were dependent on slave labor in both the north and south northern consumers were dependent on the products of this slave labor for food clothing and 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