Comments by "Patrick Cleburne" (@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558) on "TED-Ed" channel.

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  16.  @Jon-g2d5k  > Their declarations of secession are entirely about slavery. First of all, wasn't your original claim that they fought the war for slavery and that they said so? Have you already abandoned that revisionist myth and moved on to these other myths that you're trying to distort the historical record to prove? If not, let's see direct proof of your original claim. But as for the declarations of causes of secession*, they're not *at all about any attempt by the northern states to abolish slavery in the southern states according to the rule of law (i.e. a constitutional amendment like the eventual 13th amendment.) They're unmistakably about the northern states breaking the rule of law and the terms of union and detailing the ways in which they had done so. And the issues they discuss that related to slavery were ways in which they said the northern states were breaking the constitution, issues like the northern states not delivering up fugitive slaves (as the constitution explicitly required them to do) and Republicans promising to prohibit slavery in the territories (which the Supreme Court had already declared they had no constitutionally legitimate power to do.) And what's particularly notable about those actual issues, is that seceding was unambiguously no defense of any of them. Rather than the southern states defending their right to have fugitive slaves delivered up from the northern states or their right to take slaves to Kansas, seceding was an unambiguously an abandonment of those rights, the exact opposite of fighting for those rights.
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