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  1. Look into the Corwin Amendment in the US, which was offered to the southern states "on March 2, 1861, shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War." It was introduced by Senator William H. Seward (New York) and Representative Thomas Corwin (Ohio), and it was endorsed by President James Buchanan (Pennsylvania). All northerners. It would have legalized slavery permanently, and barred Congress from making any law or amendment against it in the future. Now, a few states had already seceded by then, so, if it had been all about slavery, as they claim today, then why would the southern states have passed up that opportunity, which would have also stopped the war? The truth is, that Federalism had come back with Henry Clay's Whig Party, and with that was Hamilton's big brother overreaching government, who placed high tariffs on imports to pay off bank bonds, damaging the south, and they brought back national banking. Corruption came with it, and all of this is what led to the nullifications, secession, and war. Slavery was only a small part of it, as by then, some in the south had already freed their slaves. Those of the Federalists' belief in Clays Whigs were also very cozy with the early socialists in Europe, especially Marx, and many scholars have called the Civil War "the time when Lincoln brought the French Revolution to US shores." There was almost war under Jackson over this very thing, where the northern states benefited from everything, and protected manufacturing, while the south suffered, and paid the price. This was why Jackson attacked the national bank. The war was over two political philosophies, that of Jefferson's Republicanism, and that of Hamilton's Federalism. Sen. Randolph of Roanoke Va., who was opposed to slavery, led the "Old Republicans," and they were those of Jefferson, not Clay's Whigs, (who hijacked the name). Randolph said it best about republican values of: “love of peace, hatred of offensive war, jealousy of the state governments toward the general government, a dread of standing armies, a loathing of public debts, taxes, and excises; tenderness for the liberty of the citizen; jealousy, Argus-eyed jealousy of the patronage of the President.” That is the difference between fact, and what is being promoted as history these days.
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