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**Slintreeoost** · 08-29-2012, 10:31 PM

While I am not in disagreement with the rest of your post. I am however, not sure I am quite following 100%.

South Carolina did not attempt to secede the Union, it did secede the Union. So did several other states.

That metaphysical point was denied by Lincoln and the Union troops. They argued, the South could not leave the Union, that they did not have the right, James Ostrowski - Lincoln's Secession Arguments.

If you are right and they left the Union, what was the war between sovereign States about then? (The propaganda put forth by the victor AFTER the war began was slavery but that does not hold up to scrutiny. Why not go to war with all countries in the world who still had slavery?)

08-29-2012, 10:31 PM	#19
Slintreeoost Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 502 Senior Member	While I am not in disagreement with the rest of your post. I am however, not sure I am quite following 100%. South Carolina did not attempt to secede the Union, it did secede the Union. So did several other states. That metaphysical point was denied by Lincoln and the Union troops. They argued, the South could not leave the Union, that they did not have the right, James Ostrowski - Lincoln's Secession Arguments. If you are right and they left the Union, what was the war between sovereign States about then? (The propaganda put forth by the victor AFTER the war began was slavery but that does not hold up to scrutiny. Why not go to war with all countries in the world who still had slavery?)
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