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Four of the States which rebelled signed not only the declarations of secession themselves but also documents on the causes for it. Some of them hardly mentioned slavery and some ranted on and on about the issue. How big a part slavery played would have depended in large part on who you asked, and where. http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html
The following page contains a fair number of documents related to the issue, one of which is the Party Platforms and Secession Documents, inside that you'll find the 1860 Republican Party Platform. A decent part of the platform in the last election before the war was related to the issue of slavery and the south decided they would not be lead by that man under that platform, it was worth rebellion. http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/causes.html
So while it's true to say the Civil War wasn't about freeing the slaves it's also true that it was in large part about slavery and how this nation would live with it in the future. Not just about that, but it was one of the hot button issues of the time and we've got it in their own words.
I'm writing that quote down.
So to sum it up while there was a lot of other stuff going on I think slavery was by far the central issue, and everything else was just being used to solidify each side's position.
Look at it from the perspective of the South. The new territories were going to be slave free if the North got their way, there had been a bloody fight over it in Kansas, the platform Lincoln ran under was nearly half related to slavery or the other issues and they saw slippery slopes just like we do. With good cause probably, few were talking about freeing them but it did seem the direction things were heading. Encroaching on and weakening the tradition at the least.
Actually freeing them didn't come about until Lincoln felt he was able to do it and justify it politically, it helped to set a moral high ground which kept the Europeans out of the war. That had to be timed right with a win in battle and such so that's why we had the timing we did. Lincoln was also quoted as saying if he could have ended the war without freeing a slave he'd have done it, so while it was about the subject it certainly wasn't about the impending act. More the fear of it. And like I said above, not just that but it was a big hot button issue of the time and we do have it in their own words.
If you're interested in the subject of the Civil War in general you could spend a month following the links in the following page and not be done. A collection of collections and some of the best on the web, used for research and including lots of historical documents in their own words such as what I pointed to in the last post. I've read a bit of it
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
I could go on about the xians being biased in their view about the bible, and the atheist scients being biased in trying to prov evolution. but I will leave it at that.
http://www.videosift.com/video/How-Chimp-Chromosome-13-Proves-Evolution
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Theory-of-Evolution-Made-Easy
http://www.videosift.com/video/Carl-Sagan-on-Evolution
http://www.videosift.com/video/Genetic-Evidence-Planted-by-SATAN
Bullcrap. The evidence for evolution is everywhere - if you don't "believe" in evolution then you can fall off the end of the world too.
Strangely, this video starts off by attacking a creation museum, then goes off on a tangent about nations, crazy denials of various people and then... Bush lie-berry? Going on about Iraq? Winning the war on terror? Where to start? What connection do they have? I was wondering if this video's script would ever come back to the initial topic in a more logical manner. Guess not.
The initial reason why I'm posting this message is that the script in this video is very shoddy to say the least and I'm certainly no scholar when it comes to good writing (this post is a great example). But it becomes clearly apparent, even for a basic man like myself, that this is rabid, maniacal insanity of the most common order.
...and by the way, Bush does not share the same beliefs that Christians do.
Thank God for that, eh