From sea to shining sea

    by XipingVonHozzendorf

    24 Comments

    1. ThrowAbout01 on

      Saint Sherman should have driven them into the sea on his march.

      Would have saved us all lot of trouble down the line.

    2. --PhoenixFire-- on

      The latter two aren’t even unrelated. In fact, that’s the reason why the compromise offered by things like the Corwin Amendment – to merely *contain* slavery to where it was currently practiced – did nothing to avert the Civil War. The Confederates knew slavery would inevitably die out if it wasn’t able to expand, so to them, containment was little different from protracted abolition.

    3. Spainiswhite on

      I still don’t get how anyone can fly the confederate flag and also claim to be a “patriotic American”

    4. The even pushed for the US to intervene in other countries to make them slave state, like what happened in Texas and Nicaragua.

    5. 5v3n_5a3g3w3rk on

      “the south fought for states rights”
      “States rights to what?”
      “Ehm”

    6. It was about states’ rights: the North’s rights to not have slavery forced on them.

    7. The South was obviously a monolith and every one of them fought for the same reason.

      That’s what y’all sound like.

    8. LimeGrass619 on

      Who knows what would they have done if they captured the capitol. Like, maybe at first they wanted secession, but with Wiashington DC in their hands, they can make many more demands than the initials.

      Remember these are people who treat other people worse than their cattle, so who is to say they were willing to play nice or fair?

    9. Specialist_Sound9738 on

      Why would someone poor hillbilly kid living in a shack care about slavery?

    10. TheMightyMisanthrope on

      It was a car over states rights… Specifically, the right of the states to keep slaves

    11. All of the above in this meme is true and not mutually exclusive.

      It’s also true that the North fought to secure geopolitical hegemony of the continent. Most of them didn’t give a shit about slaves, including Lincoln.

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