Gotta put him down. It's a mercy, he's suffering too : historymemes

[+] natecox@programming.dev 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

tbf, the Confederacy abolished states' rights to abolish slavery. So even 'states' rights' isn't a correct answer - and just like in the modern day, it's only cover for "We do what I want when I'm in power, and what I want when the opposition is in power too"

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

Good dog.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

State's rights to do what?

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

It was state rights until they get a federal majority in all three branches then it's all about the central government.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 2 years ago

Checkmate, Lincolnites!

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

State's rights is weird

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 2 points 2 years ago

I thought it was about absolute monarchists vs constitutional monarchists.

[+] xia@lemmy.sdf.org -17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why must we dumb it down to a single cause? Maybe it was asymmetric... that is, about slavery for the north, and about states rights for the south.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

and about states rights to enslave, beat and rape humans for the south.

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

Yes. Or even more accurately, to leave and be left alone while doing that.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

If only the South had written down why they wanted to separate...

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's to bad we don't have well written missives from each of the states that seceded, I guess we'll never know.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Except no, it was 100% a lie in the South, too. The first fucking thing they did after secession was to write themselves a constitution that was mostly copy-pasted from the US Constitution except for where they explicitly removed states' rights to abolish slavery.

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Nah, it was slavery for the south. For the north, it was about keeping the union together and slavery second.

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