“As an Irish from Ireland that I state again,I will fight for liberty and freedom”
Why do I have the impression that Ireland is near-constantly involved in wars, revolutions, and militant political movements since the 16th-century “Tudor conquest of Ireland”?
@Background Pony #71B7
Now listen well and listen good,the south was wrong to keep slavery as its main law and as an Irishman from Ireland,I’ll tell you to got back to your stupid KKK friends and As an Irish from Ireland that I state again,I will fight for liberty and freedom and that all men are created equal in the United States,Amen and God bless Ireland and America.
@Itsthinking
War has no reason except this :the survivor is always the one fighting for what’s right.
-Gregory in Gregory Horror Show Night 09 by Naomi Iwata
can we all at least agree that war sucks? regardless of the political opinions of the government on either side of the war the people that died were all americans.
@lazertomato
This is true. The South WAS very dependent on slave labor to keep its plantations working. But that’s only half the reason (maybe 60% the reason, but whatever). The reality is, most white people in the south saw black people as inferior and feared the idea of equality.
Just look at the next 100+ years and you’ll know that that’s true.
Just look at the south today!
I just want to preface this by saying that I do not at all condone slavery. That being said, the South didn’t fight to keep it just because the liked having them around. Slavery was the only way for large plantations, on which large parts of the South relied, to be at all economically viable. It was a choice between cruelty and poverty.
@Aura
Was well aware of nullification. But unlike apologists of the 20th century, I consider slavery the primary reason “state’s rights” were brought up.
From the very beginning the South was not friendly to the idea of integrating into the North socially, technologically, or politically, and that’s part of the reason why they lost. An agrarian economy that places emphasis on a decentralized government is pretty much the exact opposite of what you want during any war, and the American Civil War relied on mechanization and production, something the South severely lacked.
@Itsthinking
States rights, along with Nullification, were highly debated right before the Civil War. What became the South believed that the power was held more by the individual states than the Federal government. The North believed that the Federal government had a higher say the same matters.
Nullification was one area of States vs. Feds that came up. South Carolina believed in states rights so much that, if a State didn’t agree with a bill or something passed by the Federal government, that State could nullify the law.
This is all a bit hazy since it was about 2 years since I took U.S. History. Check the Wikipedia page linked below. I glanced over it and believe it provides an accurate explanation –better than my own at least.
