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So, ...you believe that South seceded because the North was about to outlaw slavery?
Yes. That is just what I believe.
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“Corner Stone” Speech
Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens
Savannah, Georgia
March 21, 1861
The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.
8220 Corner Stone 8221 Speech Teaching American History
Then how do you address the contradictions that Lincoln stated in his first inaugural...that the federal government had no power to terminate slavery and he went on to say the slavery could exist in perpetuity?
The topic of the thread is "Why did the South secede"
Seems like Stephens is telling you why
Actually, I told you the real reason.
You should learn to accept every word I post as golden.