Originally Posted by
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yes it was democrats that wanted to keep slaves, democrats made up the confederate army
Not quite.
The Confederate States formed because the United States was ignoring it's own constitution, namely, the seizure of private property without compensation.
Yes, some of the private property happened to be slaves, but it was also land and other resources.
Lincoln had the right idea, but he went about it very badly, resulting in the War of Secession.
Democrats, of course, wanted to keep slavery. Not all of those fighting on the side of the Confederates cared about slavery. Most of them didn't. They didn't own slaves. Only the rich owned slaves.
So what were all those soldiers fighting for?
Their homes, and their families. They saw a threat to their way of life because of the property seizures and because the Union committed an act of war by continuing to occupy and resupply a fort in a foreign nation, and the Union saw no problem with just taking whatever they wanted.
The nice, clean, 'history' about the War of Secession isn't so clean. Lincoln, though he had the right idea, wasn't so good in implementing it.
The last thing Lincoln was, though, was racist. He saw that slavery is yet another form of socialism, the theft of a man's work.
Lincoln was assassinated by slavers and criminals that were Democrats. John Wilkes Booth took the actual shot. All members of this particular conspiracy were captured fairly quickly and shot or hung.
To be fair to Lincoln, Seven States had seceded BEFORE Lincoln even took office. Lincoln had made no secret that is aim was to bring about the end of slavery. A lot of people in the Confederacy were racists and bigots.
Slavery was already waning. Fewer and fewer people owned slaves. It would've eventually died off completely (except for a few holdouts), but Lincoln wanted to end it NOW. His whole campaign was centered around the slave question.
Last edited by Into the Night; 09-27-2021 at 05:35 PM.
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