Nobody said they could. You just made that up
According to James Madison, Any federal republic by its very nature invited challenge to central control. He sought at the convention a clause that would prohibit secession from the proposed union once the states had ratified the Constitution. Wonder why.
They threatened to secede if republicans won because the debate was over. Lincoln would move to end slavery.
Little late for that don't ya think. The South was committed to an agrarian way of life. It was a land where profitable and efficient plantations worked by slave labor produced cotton for the world market. This wasn't a state of mind and it has nothing to do with anyone forcing anyone to do anything. Stop with the adolescent accusations. This was a time that slavery was an acceptable way of life. Nobody today is saying it was right but you can't just project your 2020 views on something you couldn't possibly have lived through.
Again, just making it up as you go huh. Last I checked it was Republicans that defeated the Democrat slave owners and freed the slaves.
You claimed that the states were “independent”. They were not, as I showed. They were and are part of the United States.
Like I said before, the very fact that there was so much debate and controversy shows that no, there was no explicit “right” to secede(or right to secede at all, but that’s another matter).
Which doesn’t change the fact that he had made no move to end slavery when they seceded. What you
think someone will do is not a valid argument until they actually
do it. Otherwise it’s just meaningless fearmongering....but, of course, at that point the South considered
any opposition to slavery to be a dire threat.
Lol yeah, it was so profitable and influential that....uh...the Europeans wound up telling them to go **** themselves and just got their cotton elsewhere. There’s a reason that nobody— not one country— ever recognized the Confederacy as independent. And no, even in 1860 people fully realized slavery was a great evil and not even slightly acceptable....which is why the only places in the New World which still had it by that time were the US and Brazil. Not only that, but anti-slavery sentiment was particularly strong in Europe, and played a major role in Britain and France refusing to come save the Confederacy.
So, in short, the argument that “slavery was a-okay by their standards” wasn’t even true in 1860, much less today. The South was one of the last remnants clinging to a despised institution, not a normal “country“ by the standards of the day.
The Republican Party hasn’t been the party of Lincoln for decades....as conservatives’ desperation to defend the Confederacy shows.
