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Yeah, I'm on a message board, not writing a dissertation of the entire history of our Constitutional compromises at the Founding, or things like the Missouri Compromise, the Nullification Crisis, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the 1852 SC Convention, Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, the John Brown Affair, the threatened expansion of slavery in other territories... and every other fucking detail that led up to the Civil War...The seeds which started with a Southern aristocracy that refused to join the Union initially unless their precious peculiar institution was allowed to thrive.I guess extreme oversimplification is easier for the average person, uneducated in history and cultural anthropology, to grasp..........
The seeds of the Civil War were planted with the colonization of the Americas and following a series of complex events over the following decades came to fruition with the secession of the South and the start of open warfare.
Which let to compromises like granting 3/5ths population count to property, as a horse is property, and that was not represented.
Which led to Southern domination in Congress, by virtue of counting that which is property and could not vote - to nearly 4 million of the 9 million Southerners, which, until that time of the 1860 election (where they did not even allow Lincoln on the ballot in those Southern states) -- they had maintained enough power to satisfy.
Then! Lincoln's election/ Boom. They lost an election. See ya's -- We're taking our marbles and going home now.
Still oversimplifying I see, still focused on only one aspect while ignoring all the rest. I guess none of the other political battles waged by both sides and the other compromises made by both sides have no bearing whatsoever.......... I guess if it doesn't fit your world view you toss it out........
Lincoln's election was simply the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back, nothing more, nothing less.
So sue me. The simpletons don't read posts longer than 4 lines here anyway -- but I can plank down a load when needed, and as you & I have interacted for years here now on the matter, you know full well I am fully equipped, when the subject or desire is called for -- in a "JimCrowie" thread, not so much.
It was the election of Lincoln, because the election of a republican meant, to the Southern Slaveholders, their precious love of human bondage was threatened, and that meant WAR!, dammit.
I could note how itchin' itchin' itchin' they were, in 1856 too -- when the Southern press said "'Tis treason to cry "Peace!" "peace!" when there is no peace. There is, there can be, no peace, no lasting union between the south and Black Republicanism"
or that in 1856 if a republican was elected, "the conservative South will burst forth in a carnival of blood..."
But luckily, Buchanan was elected, and they went *phew.*
However, that's all mishmash between the dash, isn't it? When Abe hit the bigtime - that's when they knew it was time to marble on, on, onward! To save the slave for safe-keeping for noble Southron aristocrats e'verware.