The Last Battle of the civil War (1 Viewer)

[SBin2008]

The constitution proclaimed states could succed from the union.

 

[Casterfield]

The constitution proclaimed states could succed from the union.

This thread is nearly 3 years old. And it's secede.

 

[SBin2008]

Sorry Caster, but you know what I meant.



:bah:

 

[Casterfield]

Sorry Caster, but you know what I meant.



:bah:

KNOW I DIDNT!

 

[jackers]

Didn't the compassionate North wipe out the indian tribes almost directly after the Civil War?

 

[Bleu Raeder]

KNOW I DIDNT!

No, I guess you didn't

 

[SBin2008]

KNOW I DIDNT!

Yes you dids.

 

[SBin2008]

Slavery became an issue after the Emancipation Proclamation. This was a way for Lincoln to present a cause for the fight. rightly so, slaverys days were over. It had been around for thousands of years and it was time for it to go.

However, to say the war wasn't about states rights, tax issues, and constitutional issues is spurious.

How many confederate soldiers owned slaves? Not many, look it up.


this is a good site explaining the EP and the exact wording of the doc.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/



Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory.


One of the areas exempted under northern control was New Orleans