re: #14 CuriousLurker

Well, I was gonna post this downstairs in response to jaunte’s #150, but by the time I got around to it there was a new thread. That said, given the subject matter of this new thread, I think it’s not too far OT.

Last weekend I was (re)reading some of the southern states’ declarations of causes for secession. Of the ones I read (Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia), every single one of them mentioned slavery as a primary cause:

Georgia: 34 times—slave/slaves, anti-slavery, non-slave-holding, etc.
Mississippi: 7 times—same forms as above.
South Carolina: 18 times—same forms as above plus slaveholding/non-slaveholding.
Texas: 22 times—same forms as above.
Virginia: They only mentioned it one time, however they made up for it with a big whine about the federal government having perverted its Constitutional powers “not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern Slaveholding States.” (Source: civilwar.org)

Oh noes! Why does no one care about the delicate fee-fees of the poor oppressed white people? Sound familiar?

The one I found the most obnoxious was Texas, though. It was so… I can’t even… it makes my head want to explode just thinking about it. Read it for yourselves:

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“Beneficent” slavery and “the debasing doctrine of equality of all men,” regardless of race. “Undeniable truths” and governments established “exclusively” by and for the white race. The African race “rightfully held” and regarded as inferior. “Servitude” is not only “mutually beneficial,” but also “abundantly authorized and justified” by mankind, God, and “all Christian nations.”

But the Civil War wasn’t about slavery and the Confederate flag isn’t racist, YOU’RE the racist so SHUT UP, libtard!!11!

Yeah, try pulling that bullshit on someone else, m’kay? Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go scream into a pillow, possibly followed by a shower in hot bleach to try to scrub off the filthy feeling all this gives me because this is precisely the sick fucking mentality the Orange Vulgarian is appealing to and siding with.

An absolute lie, too:

They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy…

The (original) 13th Amendment, guaranteeing in perpetuity the survival of slavery in every state where it already existed, passed both Houses of Congress and would certainly have been ratified. The war was about their demand to extend slavery into the Territories, even those north of the Missouri Compromise line. The Dred Scott decision, as a throwaway, declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional anyway.