Why did South Carolina want to break from The Union?

Bbbob · Sergeant Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 12

What exactly was the reason where they said "To *beep* with this!" and decided they wanted to break free.?

N.W.15thAR · Captain Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 167

Because they were really really upset!

Pvt. Gale
N.W. 15th Arkansas

O'Bruadair · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:02 am Post subject:

The answer to that question can be complicated and multi-faceted. When all the “patriotic” hyperbole, myth and propaganda of both sides is stripped away though it boils down to one question:

Who was going to control the wealth?

I have demonstrated elsewhere on this board that the South was undoubtedly the wealthiest part of the nation on a per capita basis in 1860 but has been the poorest ever since.

This is what secession was really about and this is what the war was really about i.e a huge transfer of wealth from South to north.

The people of the South wanted to continue to control Southern wealth and their own destiny according to the principles laid down in the Constitution.

Lincoln and his yankee mercantilist buddies had other ideas.

I think H.L. Mencken said it best when he wrote about the “Gettysburg address”:

“The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”

Now I know this is a hard pill for most Americans to swallow (it is especially difficult for neo-puritan PC types) Nevertheless if you can overcome your American “education” and think about it logically the way Mencken did you will find it to be true.

Ollie439 · Sergeant Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 17 Location: Alabama

States rights! states rights! states rights! bunch of horse *beep* that it, states right to hold slaves is all that *beep* is.

Nick · Sergeant Major Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 51

O'Bruadair · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject:

"[quote]Licoln was correct from his perspective"[/quote]

Well yeah I guess so. Same could be said of Hitler and Stalin too.

THE5ASPECTS · Sergeant Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 15

[quote="O'Bruadair"]"[quote]Licoln was correct from his perspective"[/quote]

Well yeah I guess so. Same could be said of Hitler and Stalin too.[/quote]
true... Lincoln did have absolutely no reason for the war other than "Fort Sumter" which was not even the first actual battle, TECHNICALLY.