Re: Cruz, Palin join protesters at WWII Memorial
Which of the four states I mentioned did not join the Confederacy?
Then explain why it matters which states seceded when the discussion is about why they seceded.
What states succeeded is very important to your theory. If the war was about slavery, wouldnt the slave states have seceded? But they didnt..not all slave states were Confederate states.
During the Civil war, Maryland and Delaware were on the Union side, they were also slave states and they were slave states even AFTER the Civil War.
The Civil War started in 1861, it wasnt until 1863 that Lincoln, who was loosing the war to this point, needed more soldiers to fight for the Union army. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln used that times version of E.O. and signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation also ordered that "suitable" persons among those freed could be enrolled into the paid service of United States' forces, and ordered the Union Army (and all segments of the Executive branch) to "recognize and maintain the freedom of" the ex-slaves. The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, did not itself outlaw slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves (called freedmen) citizens. It made the eradication of slavery an explicit war goal.
If it didnt become a "goal" until 2 years AFTER the war had started, how could it have been a reason the war started?
If Maryland & Delaware were slave states fighting for the Union, and they kept their slaves during and after the war, how could it be about slavery?
What did we learn here. By 1863 the Union was loosing the Civil War and it all but was certain that the Union was not going to be able to keep the country together. So Lincoln tapped into what the Confederacy was already doing, the Confederacy was offering freedom to its slaves if they fought in the war for the Confederates.
Lincoln did not offer freedom to the slaves in its states to fight, rather chose to pay freed blacks to fight and adopted the goal of eradication of slavery...two years after the war had started.
I can not say WHY they adopted this stance 2 years after the war had already started, that would kind of be like changing the reason for fighting WWII half way through it and then have people now believe thats why you went to war in the first place. My best guess as to why the switch half way through the war, propaganda to get freed blacks to enlist in the Union army to fight for their kin and to tap in on a heavy anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
Learn your history.
eace
