re: #67 The Great Eye

This is the great dodge that the Lost Causers/States Rights/War of Northern Aggression Truthers love to use. For the Confederacy the war was always about slavery, but for the Union at it’s start the war was about preserving the Union, only later on did the Union make emancipation a goal. It’s through this wiggle room that the Confederacy apologists make all their cases about “The war not being about slavery” and then “States rights” or maybe even “tariffs” get thrown in.

I’ve even seen people try to argue that the Confederacy went to war over the principle that they COULD secede, if they wanted to, as a principle completely divorced from WHY they were seceding. To me, that seemed mindbogglingly stupid.