WAR OVER SLAVERY MYTH
"No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State"
The U.S. Congress approved this amendment to the constitution on 2 Mar 1861, which can be verified at the
U. S. House of Representatives web site
. The north's willingness to make this concession proves that the war was not over slavery.
Many northern sympathizers have been misled about the war. The informed ones, however, hold the belief that it's right to kill 620,000 Americans to keep a few states in the union against their will.
The rest of us believe that Lincoln's and the north's decision to settle the issue with warfare was monstrously wrong. One fourth of all southern white males between the ages of 20 and 40 died in the war.
Those confederate soldiers died for a just cause: defending their homeland from an invader.
"Because you're here."
--Confederate soldier's answer to Yankee's qquestion: "What are you fighting for?"
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