Ever hear of the South's Five Ultimatums to spread slavery against the will of the people against state's rights?
Ever hear that?
Well the Southern newspapers announced the Five Ultimatums to spread slavery against the will of the people, as headlines in May of 1861. Spread slavery into Kansas (the territories) or face war, they essentially said.
New York papers repeated the article -- and suggested Lincoln obey.
He did not.
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KANSAS EXPOSED SOUTHERN HATRED FOR STATES RIGHTS
By 1861, people in Kansas had voted 98% -2% to keep slavery out. And everyone knew it. Kansas was the focal point, for North and South, for years.
Kansas had fought a four year undeclared war against "raiders" sent by slave owners to scare the "sod busters" into accepting slavery. Finally John Brown fought back -- and the US was never the same.
Kansas stood up to the raiders -- and won. Slave owners could not send enough thugs out there to scare all the "free soilders", Kansas then voted overwhelmingly to keep slavery out forever.
We don't teach these extreme things about the South, or religion, in our schools. We should
WE NEED TO SEPARATE FROM THE US SO WE CAN FORCE THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY.
Southern newspapers are where you should get your history from -- not from edited, whitewashed, and politically correct US text books. Southern newspapers were very clear --we can FORCE slavery into Kansas, California, Mexico Central America.
OH you didn't know that? Probably because you didn't bother to read Southnern newspapers and documents.
WE WILL SPREAD SLAVERY NOT JUST TO KANSAS -- BUT MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA
Things had become SO polarized that it went beyond war. A first, in 1780s- 1800, slave owners just gave "God ordained it" as an excuse -- one they didn't really believe anyway.
But as time went on, slave owners and their apologist got more extreme. Once you say God ordains slavery -- you can't back down. Slave owners by 1860, including "moderates" like Robert E Lee, insisted God also ordained the torture of slaves.
Slavery was not just a right -- but a DUTY. As Texas offical Declaration of Secession said " Anyone who is against slavery is against GOD ".
Robert E Lee said abolitionist "are trying to destroy the American church".
See what Iverson said the big advantage of secession would be -- we can finally spread slavery as we really desire -- as God wants -- to Kansas, California, and beyond.
But as time went on, slave owners and their apologist got more extreme. Once you say God ordains slavery -- you can't back down. Slave owners by 1860, including "moderates" like Robert E Lee, insisted God also ordained the torture of slaves.
Slavery was not just a right -- but a DUTY. As Texas offical Declaration of Secession said " Anyone who is against slavery is against GOD ".
Robert E Lee said abolitionist "are trying to destroy the American church".
See what Iverson said the big advantage of secession would be -- we can finally spread slavery as we really desire -- as God wants -- to Kansas, California, and beyond.
Spend some time reading Southern newspapers from the time. And many of those papers have been lost, or not digitized yet. These were the daily things that showed up in Southern newspapers -- and there was no corresponding voice against the spread of slavery, because it was ILLEGAL in the South to speak or write or publish anything that even QUESTIONED slavery!
WE LOST CALIFORNIA TO WHITE SCUM WHO WERE AGAINST SLAVERY, AND BY GOD, WE WONT LOSE KANSAS
Did you know Southern leaders were incensed that they didn't get California? They demanded that Missouri be a slave state -- and allowed California to come in as free.
But guess what happened? Gold was dicovered in California, and people started to bring back reports of the wealth of the state. Suddenly those very same people who demanded the "compromise" were now pissed as hell they didn't get slavery in California too!
Southern leadership grew livid the more they thought of it. And they promised to retake California and put it as a slave state, BY FORCE, if they could just get themselves free of that evil United States, with it's hoards of "abolition scum"
Again -- without an iota of concern that the white people of California Kansas, or anyone else said. And of course, they didn't care what the black people wanted.
YOu really have to understand how bat shit goofy Southern leaders had become. And you can't get that from the sanitized nonsense in our text books. Go read Southern newspaper -- more and more are getting digitized.
WE WILL BURY YOU
Did you know Confderate bragged about spreading slavery to Kansas, California, and into Mexico and Central America? In fact, Vice President Alexander Stephens had a standard speech -- he gave many times -- about how the Confederacy would spread slavery throughout the white world.
Stephens, and other Confderates, said other nations allowed slavery from time to time, but they did it wrong! They enslaved whites or tan people. The Confederacy was going to be different -- it would be "just the first" nation, but it would spread the "great moral truth" that God was punishing the black race, by slavery. And that it was the white man's duty to enslave blacks!
You can't make this up. But much the same thing was said by most Confederate leaders, including amazingly Robert E LEE!
Spreading slavery was the rhetoric that excited the base. And it was the stated ideal of Jeff Davis, and Vice President Alexender Stephens, as they both said repeatedly.
Kansas messed these lunatics all up. When the people of Kansas rejected slavery overwhelmingly, did the Southern leaders say "Oh, never mind"?
Hell no, Southern speakers, like Alfred Iverson, later a Confederate general and spoken of highly to this day in the South, called white people in Kanas "abolitionists scum" who must be elimated. They were part, said Iverson, of an "evil conspiracy" to stop slavery.
Who was at the head of this conspiracy? Naturally, Satan. The "evil spirit" of abolition. Even Robert E Lee said "abolitionist are trying to destroy the American church.
" White Scum" were in Kansas, said one Southern speaker, and they must be "squashed". In fact, they were livid that California did not become a slave state because "it is a
Go on, guess. Really, guess. You can't make thiss up.
Kansas. That's right, the exact place that had overwhelmingly voted to keep slavery out FOREVER.
5 out of 5
According to Southern newspapers, there were FIVE Ultimatums. Care to guess how many of those were about the spread of slavery?
And when those Ultimatums were not obeyed -- the South attacked.
Here is verbatim headline and announcement in Richmond papers, two weeks before Fort Sumter attack.
FROM RICHMOND NEWSPAPERS - MAY 1861
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THE TRUE ISSUE
The ultimatum of the seceded States is left in no uncertainty; it is to be found in the solemn action of the Montgomery (Confederate) Constitution and may be analyzed as follows:
Slavery MUST be "recognized and protected" No state can impair or deny slavery. Do you see that? It even directed what laws states must pass, what laws they must NOT pass.
These were Southern leaders --- most of whom had never been to Kansas -- sitting in Montgomery Alabama, and in effect promising war if slavery was kept out of Kansas. Even though the people in Kansas had rejected slavery emphatically.
Southern papers were filled with hatred -- go read their papers from 1855 on. They called the white settlers in Kansas "white scum" and demanded "our rights to Kansas". Southern leaders, sitting on their ass in Mississippi and Alabama and Virginia, were livid that people in Kansas would not do what people in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas did -- go along with slavery. HOW DARE THEY.
WOULD LINCOLN OBEY THEM?
Lincoln of course was willing to do anything BUT let slavery spread. Lincoln knew, and the Southern leaders agreed, that if Lincoln could stop the SPREAD of slavery, slavery would have to die. Slavery was like a cancer -- it had to spread or go away, just because of the fantastic birth rate (much of it forced) of the slaves.
Lincoln could not, and would not, spread slavery for the South.
This was sas not just the Southern leaders letting off steam at the moment -- Southern leaders had used every means imaginable, fair, foul, and otherwise, for 60 years. Read any Southern newspaper from 1855 on, most of them are rabid and extreme demands that "Southern rights" be "recognized" in Kansas. In other words, that slavery be spread in Kansas.
In fact, Lincoln's famous "House Divided" speech is basically his announcement to the nation about the South's insane presistent obsession to SPREAD slavery by foul means, because they could not spread it by honorable means. While Lincoln's House Divided speech is considered one of the most important in US history, for some reason, we don't teach our children what his central message was -- that the South was seeking to SPREAD slavery by violence, threats, and deceit.
And Lincoln said that because it was true.
WHY THE SOUTH COULD NOT SPREAD SLAVERY
It wasn't Congress or the USSC or LIncoln who was stopping the spread of slavery in the territories. It was the white people in Kansas who stopped the spread in Kansas.
By 1861, whites in the new states were saying NO NO and HELL NO.
Southern leaders insisted they didnt have to do what the white people in Kansas said -- because those whites were "WHITE SCUM" sent by Satan (yes, Satan) in the "evil" attempt to stop slavery. Satan, they said, was "the first abolitionist".
Yes - it got that crazy Even Jeff Davis and Robert E Lee jumped into the "GOD EXCUSE". Jeff Davis said slavery was "A divine blessing" and that "God delivered the Negro to us".
Robert E Lee said slavery was "ordered" by God, and that pain "is necessary for their instruction as a race". The abolitionists, wrote Lee, "were trying to bring down the American Church".
Sadly, all such crazy preposterous talk by Southern leaders has been white washed -- erased -- or glossed over in our text books. But they were headlines and the applause lines in speeches at the time. More, the "God excuse" was how slave owners not only justified slavery in their heads, but how they justified the SPREAD of slavery.
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| John Gilmer, North Carolina preacher arrested,found guilty, and sentenced to be whipped, for owning a book that questioned slavery. |
WHITE SCUM MUST BE ELIMINATED
Since we don't teach the extreme and violent nature of Southern leaders -- we also don't teach their ultimatums to spread slavery.
IN goofy language Orwell would admire, our text book talk of "states rights". Never mind that the South actually hated states rights, if that meant states would vote against slavery!
The Texas official declaration of secession said those who were against slavery (and the spread of it) were "against God and Civilization". The violence in Kansas from 1856 on, was not a "dispute" over slavery. It was thugs and low lifes sent by slave owners to terroriz and scare the living crap out of Kansas settlers.
It didn't work -Kansas settlers fought back. That's where John Brown got his start.
ANTI INCENDIARY LAWS
The South had gotten rid of white scum in the South for decades. Free speech about slavery had been outlawed from 1820's on, thanks to the anti-incendiary laws, passed in each Southern state.
Because of these laws, it was illegal to speak, write, or preach against slavery. Not just socially risky, it was a CRIME.
Even preachers could be --and were - arrested for owning the wrong book. One case in North Carolina, a preacher was arrest on the charge of owning a book which just questioned slavery.
He was found guilty -- crowds formed to watch the whipping, but the judge granted bail for an appeal. The preacher wisely left the South. The author of the book also left the South.
Other preachers and writers got the message.
You thought the South respected "states rights"? Slave owners respected states rights as much as they respected free speech about slavery, and as much as they respected their slaves right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It is bizzare and shameful that our history text books even mention "states rights" on the South. In a very real sense, the South went to war to PREVENT and oppress states rights.
Slavery MUST - MUST -- be "accepted and respected" by Kansas. The states MUST accept it. The US Congress must accept it.
These were not historians later trying to make Southern leaders demands look insane. These were the Southern leaders themselves -- bragging about it.
In fact, Jefferson Davis said repeatedly that the "intolerable grievance" was Lincoln's resistance to slavery in the territories. He called it "Southern rights to Kansas". Kansas, he insisted, essentially belonged to the South. It did not belong to the people of Kansas. The people of Kansas would have to accept and respect slavery -- period.
Jeff Davis said in his famous farwell speech that slavery must be spread -- the South had the right to spread slavery into Kansas. By what logic? By states rights? Hell no, everyone alive in 1861 knew that Kansas people hated slavery.
The "states rights" myth you hear so much about was the cliche and lie the slave owners used to spread slavery into Misssouri and Texas and Arkansas. But slave owners had used violence threats and oppression to spread slavery there too --
But Kansas was different. First of all, Kansas had free speech -- the Southern states did not. People in Kansas organized and their few newspapers sent word back to Washington and New York, to tell w hat was happening.
The telegraph -- the internet of it's day -- played a huge, and often ignored -- role in this phenonom. Before, slave owners could sent their thugs, oppress and control a state, and push slavery there. But not in Kansas.
It's no accident that the FIRST thing slave owners tried to do in Kansas is to prevent free speech. He forgets to mention that the people of Kansas were overwhelmingly against it.
Every Southern leader was screaming "popular soverignty" when they thought that would be a good excuse to spread slavery. As soon as the popular choice was to NOT allow slavery to spread -- suddenly those people were "scum".
Davis wrote in his own book after the war that theh "INTOLERABLE GRIEVANCE" that made secession and war necessary was LIncoln and abolitionist trying to stop the SPREAD of slavery into KANSAS.
Gee -- you didn't learn that in high school and college? Well just read Southern newspapers, Southern books, and Southern speeches at the time. They were bragging about it.
And this article in Richmond and other Southern papers was the "politically correct" version. The polite version. As Toombs said yelled to cheering crowds: "EXPAND OR PERISH"
HE meant, expand slavery or perish. And that is exactly, precisely what they did. Or tried to do.
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We aren't taught to look at Civil War as a question of the spread of slavery. Lincoln sure looked at it that way, and said so repeatedly.
These Ultimatums were the defacto first act the Southern leaders took. They were that important, and had been for three generations. The spread of slavery was hotly and passionately fought over for decades -- sometimes violence on the floor of the US Senate.
By every means possible -- legal or otherwise, slave owners had demanded one thing -- the SPREAD of slaver Threats, promises of war, declarations that the North were "against God and Civilzation" were common.
The "compromises" of 1820 and 1850 were compromises like a 7-11 armed robery is. Each time the South said just give us this much more room for slavery -- then came back demanding more. You aren't taught that in school, but everyone knew it then. And until Lincoln, no one had the balls to stand up to the violent religious lunatics -- which is exactly what they were.
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LINCOLN'S REACTION
Lincoln of course was not about to spread slavery into Kansas -- or do anything else they said. He had tried for years to placate slave owners, and his constant goal was to first STOP the spread of slavery.
Like a good doctor tries to first stop the spread of cancer, that was LIncoln's goal, and the only way he could think of to kill slavery entirely a time went on.
Lincoln did not respond to the Ultimatums. He would do about anything else -- but not spread slavery, in fact, Lincoln haters trash Lincoln to this day, that he was SO willing to do anything but spread slavery.
Lincoln of course, knew that stopping the spread of slavery would kill it. And the Southern leaders knew that too. When Toombs yelled "Expand or perish" that was the prevailing, deeply held belief of slave owners.
So two weeks later, the South attacked, just as promised.
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| JEFF DAVIS: THE INTOLERABLE GRIEVANCE : RESISTANCE TO SPREAD OF SLAVERY |
Keep in mind -- these are not historians later trying to make the South look like crazy lunatics -- these were leaders of the South speaking for themselves.
Unfortunately, most 'historians' try very hard not to piss of the South -- a legacy that predates the Civil War, but continues to this day. Lincoln tried not to piss them off, but as you will see by the Ultimatums, only the SPREAD of slavery would stop their violent attacks and threats.
Southern apologist insist today, of course, that "slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War." No matter how loudly or proudly or repeatedlly their heroes screamed from the rooftops that it was about the SPREAD of slavery. They ignore the overwhelming proof, available in thousands of pages of Southern newspapers, books, and documents, and instead quote Jeff Davis famous delusional BS "We just want to be left alone"
Left alone to SPREAD slavery into Kansas -- as they demanded under threat of war.
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MUST GET RID OF WHITE SCUM IN KANSAS
Sadly, our history text books are written not to piss off anyone in the South. We are never taught that the South sent thugs and killers to Kansas, for example. We are never taught that Southern speakers called the whites in Kansas "Scum" who must be gotten " rid of."
INFLAMMED SOUTHERN RHETORIC: WE MUST GET RID OF WHITE SCUM
Some Southern leaders claimed "WHITE SCUM" who hated God had "infected" Kansas, and were responsible for the resistance there to slavery.
The solution was to "rid" Kansas of such "SCUM". See below.
Jefferson Davis himself, before, during, and after the Civil War, said the "intolerable grievance" was Lincoln's resistance to the SPREAD of slavery in Kansas.
Davis equated abolitionist with "the evil serpent" who "spread the lie of freedom" into the slaves' ear. Such lies by the evil serpent "dissatisifed" the slave, causing he or she to lose "natural affection" that he claimed slaves had for their masters.
That's right -- Jeff Davis, in speeches you never hear about, bragged that slaves had "natural affection" for him and other slave owners. In fact Southern books written at the time said that "90%" of slaves preferred to be slaves, and the "uppity" 10% had to be corrected by "painful discipline", which was not the slavers fault -- it was the fault of "evil abolitionists"
In other words -- things would just be fine if you let us spread slavery. Slaves like it and it's God's will.
But that's bizzaro world logic -- slaves were eager to escape, despite the torture and posssible death from trying. Lee, for example, had "epidemics" of run away slaves, which he "managed" by tying up those he caught and whipping them.
Abolitionists were not allowed to speak to whites in the South, much less to slaves. But to admit the slaves did not want to be slaves, undermined the sociopathic, but widely held delusion, of Southern slave owners.
SPREAD SLAVERY OR DIE
As Lincoln had aptly said, slavery was a cancer, it had to spread or die. If you could see slavery on an Xray or CAT scan, it would actually look much like a cancer.
Lincoln was willing to do anything except let it spread. Like any surgeon, Lincoln knew first, stop the SPREAD. Lincoln's detractors today talk often about his willingness to accept slavery where it was as some sort of weakness. Nonsense -- this was the way to kill slavery, and the South agreed.
SLAVE OWNERS AGREED WITH LINCOLN -- IF WE CANT SPREAD SLAVERY WE DIE.
This was not in debate -- Southern leaders agreed -- the governor of Florida wrote that "just stopping the spread of slavery is like burning us to death slowly". Why was it burning them to death? Because of the "over abundance of slaves, he said.
Unless you grasp the life & death nature of the rhetoric -- whether it was accurate or not -- you don't understand the Civil War. We die if we can not spread slavery. Were they right? In their minds, they were. Again, the hateful rhetoric of the 1860 election, the stunningly extreme Southern newspapers where abolitionist were "White Scum" that had to be "removed" set the tone and attitude of the Southern leaders.
As some in the North grew more anti slavery -- the South naturally defended their customs, and dug in to justify it, in epic absurd and of course, religious terms. The "compromises" which let the South spread slavery again and again had not satisfied them, at all. In fact, those compromises had encouraged and convinced Southerners that they had the power, the duty, and the directive from GOD to spread lavery.
Yes, it got that extreme.
For example, Southern leaders said Satan was an abolitionist. Little things like that. Robert E Lee said abolitionist were "trying to destroy the American Church." In fact, any talk of abolition had been outlawed for decades -- in the South. So few people alive in 1861, in the South, had eer heard a legal sermon, or read a legal book, or listened to a legal speech, that even QUESTIONED slavery.
Bet you didn't know that -- but without this violent suppression of free speech about slavery , it was like a cancer with nothing to stop it. No one could legally try to end slavery in the south -- even preachers were arrrested for QUESTIONING slavery in their own church!
THE HYPER ABUNDANCE OF SLAVES
As slave women forced to have as many children as possible (mixed race or not) and as slaves were still imported from Cuba by the thousands, the slave numbers exploded. Rather than cut back on the number of slaves -- the "breeding farms" actually increased their quota of slave children to raise and sell. Some owners whipped their female slaves who they suspected of somehow stopping conception -- slave women were REQUIRED to breed, if possible.
You didn't know that? As we said, the really horrible stuff is not taught in our schools.
So by 1855, many areas in the South had more slaves than whites. Poor whites often left -- unable to compete with slave labor. Everyone knew the hyperabundance of slaves represented real danger to Southern whites.
Lincoln too. So the focus of Southern leaders was the spread of slavery -- not just for economics, but for physical survival. This nasty truth is never taught in our schools, but it was at the heart of the conflict.
Toombs put it blunty -- EXPAND OR PERISH. He wasn't kidding. That is how he saw it -- and that is how many Southern leaders saw it, especially those from the areas with higher slave populations than white populations.
THEY MADE THEMSELVES VERY CLEAR
Left alone to SPREAD slavery into Kansas -- as they demanded under threat of war.
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MUST GET RID OF WHITE SCUM IN KANSAS
Sadly, our history text books are written not to piss off anyone in the South. We are never taught that the South sent thugs and killers to Kansas, for example. We are never taught that Southern speakers called the whites in Kansas "Scum" who must be gotten " rid of."
INFLAMMED SOUTHERN RHETORIC: WE MUST GET RID OF WHITE SCUM
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| RICHARD TOOMBS SPEECH "EXPAND SLAVERY OR PERISH" |
Some Southern leaders claimed "WHITE SCUM" who hated God had "infected" Kansas, and were responsible for the resistance there to slavery.
The solution was to "rid" Kansas of such "SCUM". See below.
Jefferson Davis himself, before, during, and after the Civil War, said the "intolerable grievance" was Lincoln's resistance to the SPREAD of slavery in Kansas.
Davis equated abolitionist with "the evil serpent" who "spread the lie of freedom" into the slaves' ear. Such lies by the evil serpent "dissatisifed" the slave, causing he or she to lose "natural affection" that he claimed slaves had for their masters.
That's right -- Jeff Davis, in speeches you never hear about, bragged that slaves had "natural affection" for him and other slave owners. In fact Southern books written at the time said that "90%" of slaves preferred to be slaves, and the "uppity" 10% had to be corrected by "painful discipline", which was not the slavers fault -- it was the fault of "evil abolitionists"
In other words -- things would just be fine if you let us spread slavery. Slaves like it and it's God's will.
But that's bizzaro world logic -- slaves were eager to escape, despite the torture and posssible death from trying. Lee, for example, had "epidemics" of run away slaves, which he "managed" by tying up those he caught and whipping them.
Abolitionists were not allowed to speak to whites in the South, much less to slaves. But to admit the slaves did not want to be slaves, undermined the sociopathic, but widely held delusion, of Southern slave owners.
SPREAD SLAVERY INTO KANSAS OR ELSE.
The big issue was Kansas. Slavery must be spread into KANSAS, said Davis. Slavery must spread into KANSAS said Toombs, and the Confederate Constitution. They didn't demand it be voted on, or considered or allowed -- they demanded it be SPREAD by violence if need be.
So said Davis, Stephens, Toombs, and the Confederate Constitution. So said the newspapers documents and even sermons.
So said Davis, Stephens, Toombs, and the Confederate Constitution. So said the newspapers documents and even sermons.
One little problem about that. People in Kansas had just voted 98%-2% to keep slavery out forever. But that 98% of Kansas people were "SCUM" who hated God!
OH yes, it got that crazy. Before you go any further -- read that again. Southern leaders promised war if slavery was kept out of Kansas, when the people of Kansas had just voted 50 to 1 against slavery. What you probably don't know is that no place else on earth was as anti slavery as Kansas, in 1861.
WHY DEMAND SLAVERY THERE?
Yet Southern leaders had been demanding the spread of slavery there -- and sending their thugs to Kansas -- for years. Pride, ego, and mostly, big talk polarized the Southern leaders. You can't claim something is the will of God, and issue endlesss threats, and gain fame and status by being more extreme about the spread of slavery -- as Jeff Davis did -- and then suddenly say never mind.
Of course in before 1840, Southern leaders claimed they just want "popular sovereignty" the will of the (white) people. But when the white people rejected slavery overwhelmingly, suddenly that "popular sovereignty" they demanded before, now was an evil trick.
They totally flipped flopped on popular sovereignty. Early on they claimed that's all they wanted. But when whites in Kansas rejected slavery -- that very notion, popular sovereignty, became an evil.
See how principled Southern leaders were? Even today, stupid people insist the South just wanted "states rights". Actually, literally, they went to war to PREVENT states rights. Not sorta, not kinda, not in away. Their anger, hatred, and religious fervor suddenly rejected popular sovereignty.
They had promised war, over and over, and equated their honor, their God, and their lives with the spread of slavery.
In a very real sense, they had "hate talked" their way into this war. Once Lincoln was elected -- with a promise to not let slavery spread -- it had to be war, or the macho men Southern leaders had to go away with their tail between their legs.
ALL ABOUT EGO --
They weren't about to do that. These were not only proud men, virtually every Confederate and Southern leader were slave owners -- or from slave owning families. For over 20 years their daily rant was how they must demand the spread of slavery per the word of God. Davis said that God "had delivered the Negro to our hands".
Vice president Stephens said the very basis of the Confederacy was the "great moral truth" that God ordained slavery, and their duty under God was to spread slavery, by violence if need be.
They tried very hard to stop Linclon from getting elected -- he was simply not allowed on the ballot in 9 of 11 states! It was illegal to even speak out against slavery anyway.
And in the two states Lincoln was allowed on the ballot -- they simply didn't count those votes. Not that Lincoln would have gotten a lot of votes, considering the hate filled nonstop rhetoric, but Southern leaders wanted anyone but Lincoln. Lincoln was the ONLY one dedicated to stopping the SPREAD of slavery.
Only when you understand that, do you have any clue about
1) The violent lunacy of Southern leaders.
2) What Lincoln was up against.
3) US history from 1820-1861.
If you didn't know the entire history of the US from 1820-1861 was about efforts to spread slavery per the word of God -- blame our educational system, which has whitewashed this horrific and basic truth it. Everyone -- Lincoln, Davis, Lee, Stephens, all leaders North and South knew and even said it -- Southern leader bragged about it. What Southern leaders bragged about, what they demanded, what they insisted was the will of God, is strangely overlooked in US text books.
And you won't find it plainly bluntly stated anywhere. You have to read Southern newspapers, Southern sermons, Southern documents, and Southern speeches to find it plainly stated.
EVEN 150 years later -- even in respected universities --- the lectures are carefully crafted not to offend or upset Southern apologist. They bend over backwards to pay homage and respect to Southern leaders.
See the free online courses from Yale University. They do explain what happened, but in as politically correct way as possible, as if Jeff Davis and Robert E Lee were in the class, armed, and ready to shoot.
OH yes, it got that crazy. Before you go any further -- read that again. Southern leaders promised war if slavery was kept out of Kansas, when the people of Kansas had just voted 50 to 1 against slavery. What you probably don't know is that no place else on earth was as anti slavery as Kansas, in 1861.
WHY DEMAND SLAVERY THERE?
Yet Southern leaders had been demanding the spread of slavery there -- and sending their thugs to Kansas -- for years. Pride, ego, and mostly, big talk polarized the Southern leaders. You can't claim something is the will of God, and issue endlesss threats, and gain fame and status by being more extreme about the spread of slavery -- as Jeff Davis did -- and then suddenly say never mind.
Of course in before 1840, Southern leaders claimed they just want "popular sovereignty" the will of the (white) people. But when the white people rejected slavery overwhelmingly, suddenly that "popular sovereignty" they demanded before, now was an evil trick.
They totally flipped flopped on popular sovereignty. Early on they claimed that's all they wanted. But when whites in Kansas rejected slavery -- that very notion, popular sovereignty, became an evil.
See how principled Southern leaders were? Even today, stupid people insist the South just wanted "states rights". Actually, literally, they went to war to PREVENT states rights. Not sorta, not kinda, not in away. Their anger, hatred, and religious fervor suddenly rejected popular sovereignty.
They had promised war, over and over, and equated their honor, their God, and their lives with the spread of slavery.
In a very real sense, they had "hate talked" their way into this war. Once Lincoln was elected -- with a promise to not let slavery spread -- it had to be war, or the macho men Southern leaders had to go away with their tail between their legs.
ALL ABOUT EGO --
They weren't about to do that. These were not only proud men, virtually every Confederate and Southern leader were slave owners -- or from slave owning families. For over 20 years their daily rant was how they must demand the spread of slavery per the word of God. Davis said that God "had delivered the Negro to our hands".
Vice president Stephens said the very basis of the Confederacy was the "great moral truth" that God ordained slavery, and their duty under God was to spread slavery, by violence if need be.
They tried very hard to stop Linclon from getting elected -- he was simply not allowed on the ballot in 9 of 11 states! It was illegal to even speak out against slavery anyway.
And in the two states Lincoln was allowed on the ballot -- they simply didn't count those votes. Not that Lincoln would have gotten a lot of votes, considering the hate filled nonstop rhetoric, but Southern leaders wanted anyone but Lincoln. Lincoln was the ONLY one dedicated to stopping the SPREAD of slavery.
Only when you understand that, do you have any clue about
1) The violent lunacy of Southern leaders.
2) What Lincoln was up against.
3) US history from 1820-1861.
If you didn't know the entire history of the US from 1820-1861 was about efforts to spread slavery per the word of God -- blame our educational system, which has whitewashed this horrific and basic truth it. Everyone -- Lincoln, Davis, Lee, Stephens, all leaders North and South knew and even said it -- Southern leader bragged about it. What Southern leaders bragged about, what they demanded, what they insisted was the will of God, is strangely overlooked in US text books.
And you won't find it plainly bluntly stated anywhere. You have to read Southern newspapers, Southern sermons, Southern documents, and Southern speeches to find it plainly stated.
EVEN 150 years later -- even in respected universities --- the lectures are carefully crafted not to offend or upset Southern apologist. They bend over backwards to pay homage and respect to Southern leaders.
See the free online courses from Yale University. They do explain what happened, but in as politically correct way as possible, as if Jeff Davis and Robert E Lee were in the class, armed, and ready to shoot.
SPREAD SLAVERY OR DIE
As Lincoln had aptly said, slavery was a cancer, it had to spread or die. If you could see slavery on an Xray or CAT scan, it would actually look much like a cancer.
Lincoln was willing to do anything except let it spread. Like any surgeon, Lincoln knew first, stop the SPREAD. Lincoln's detractors today talk often about his willingness to accept slavery where it was as some sort of weakness. Nonsense -- this was the way to kill slavery, and the South agreed.
SLAVE OWNERS AGREED WITH LINCOLN -- IF WE CANT SPREAD SLAVERY WE DIE.
This was not in debate -- Southern leaders agreed -- the governor of Florida wrote that "just stopping the spread of slavery is like burning us to death slowly". Why was it burning them to death? Because of the "over abundance of slaves, he said.
Unless you grasp the life & death nature of the rhetoric -- whether it was accurate or not -- you don't understand the Civil War. We die if we can not spread slavery. Were they right? In their minds, they were. Again, the hateful rhetoric of the 1860 election, the stunningly extreme Southern newspapers where abolitionist were "White Scum" that had to be "removed" set the tone and attitude of the Southern leaders.
As some in the North grew more anti slavery -- the South naturally defended their customs, and dug in to justify it, in epic absurd and of course, religious terms. The "compromises" which let the South spread slavery again and again had not satisfied them, at all. In fact, those compromises had encouraged and convinced Southerners that they had the power, the duty, and the directive from GOD to spread lavery.
Yes, it got that extreme.
For example, Southern leaders said Satan was an abolitionist. Little things like that. Robert E Lee said abolitionist were "trying to destroy the American Church." In fact, any talk of abolition had been outlawed for decades -- in the South. So few people alive in 1861, in the South, had eer heard a legal sermon, or read a legal book, or listened to a legal speech, that even QUESTIONED slavery.
Bet you didn't know that -- but without this violent suppression of free speech about slavery , it was like a cancer with nothing to stop it. No one could legally try to end slavery in the south -- even preachers were arrrested for QUESTIONING slavery in their own church!
THE HYPER ABUNDANCE OF SLAVES
As slave women forced to have as many children as possible (mixed race or not) and as slaves were still imported from Cuba by the thousands, the slave numbers exploded. Rather than cut back on the number of slaves -- the "breeding farms" actually increased their quota of slave children to raise and sell. Some owners whipped their female slaves who they suspected of somehow stopping conception -- slave women were REQUIRED to breed, if possible.
You didn't know that? As we said, the really horrible stuff is not taught in our schools.
So by 1855, many areas in the South had more slaves than whites. Poor whites often left -- unable to compete with slave labor. Everyone knew the hyperabundance of slaves represented real danger to Southern whites.
Lincoln too. So the focus of Southern leaders was the spread of slavery -- not just for economics, but for physical survival. This nasty truth is never taught in our schools, but it was at the heart of the conflict.
Toombs put it blunty -- EXPAND OR PERISH. He wasn't kidding. That is how he saw it -- and that is how many Southern leaders saw it, especially those from the areas with higher slave populations than white populations.
THEY MADE THEMSELVES VERY CLEAR
Actually, the Southern leaders were very clear, very emphatic, about why they were going to war. As Southern leader Richard Toombs screamed to a cheering crowd "EXPAND OR PERISH".
Expand what? SLAVERY!
Expand what? SLAVERY!
IIronically Northern leaders had to say it was for "Union" because, frankly, virtually no one would volunteer to fight if they thought it was to free slaves they had never seen, and didn't really care about. And it was about Union -- would our union be all slave or all free, LIncoln asked.
Jeff Davis answered. We will be divided or we will be all slave states. In fact, when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, it drove Davis so nuts he promised to invade the North and make the entire US a slave nation -- a little fact Southern apologist "forget" to mention.
No one in the North intended to fight a war to end slavery. Lincoln was a genius on many levels -- but especially on presenting the war as one for Union, with the end of slavery as a "collateral effect." You can find 100 quotes where LIncoln seems to only care about Union. But try to grasp this -- his actions were to end slavery.
JEFF DAVIS KNEW WHAT LINCOLN WAS UP TO.
Jeff Davis was screaming his head off that Lincoln's real goal was to stop the SPREAD of slavery. In fact, the South correctly interpreted Lincoln's goal for years -- to stop the spread of slavery. It was not that hard to do -- the whole reason he got back into politics was the spread of slavery into Kansas by thugs and the Dred Scott decision.
People don't realize it now, but many people in the North had never seen a slave, outside major cities. And 80% of the population was rural.Escaped and freed slaves were not part of day to day white society. Most people in the South saw slaves daily, most people in the North never did, until after the Civil War.
Many Northerners assumed, basically, that blacks were somehow sub human and inferior.
WE ARE DEALING WITH SUB HUMANS HERE -- USSC speaks.
The United States Supreme Court had declared blacks "so inferior" that "no white person" could possibly assume blacks had any rights from God. That's the harsh language of the Dred Scott decision. Oh, I know, we teach our kids that Dred Scott was about citizenship. Bullshit -- read it yourself. It was about slaves - even freed blacks -- being HUMAN or not, in the eyes of the court.
And the decision by Taney Court -- no, they are not human. For constitutional purposes, they are property.
As Lincoln said over and over, Dred Scott's goal was to make blacks "property and nothing but property". For some goofy reason, we have adopted the Orwellian double talk of the South, and rejected the plain spoken truth of Lincoln, on this Dred Scott issue, and many others.
The Dred Scott decision said that blacks were SO inferior, that no Congress, no state, no city, noone, in any way, can even GIVE blacks the rights in the Declaration of INdependence. This is a gross, foul, obscene decision - a 1000 times worse than we dare teach to our children.
And Jeff Davis said Lincoln's "disrespect" for the Dred Scott "decision" was proof the South had to use force to "assure our rights" meaning -- of course -- the SPREAD of slavery.
In fact, we have white washed the horrors and lunacy of slave owners and their supporters, such as Robert E Lee, Jeff Davis, and USSC Chief Justice Roger Taney. Only when you read SOUTHERN newspapers, SOUTHERN books, SOUTHERN speeches from that time, do you get an idea how truly vile Southern leaders were -- including Lee.
The war started when the South tried to SPREAD slavery, a huge fact that our history books refuse to say plainly.
Southern leaders said it plainly -- why not believe their own words, given a thousand times, officially, unofficially, in documents, speeches, newspapers and sermons?
They didn't just suggest slavery be spread, they didn't just demand it. They issued war ultimatums about it, and when those ultimatums were ignored -- they attacked. You simply can't get any more determined to spread slavery.
Oh, and they insisted it was the will of God, naturally.
Not the protection of slavery where it existed -- the SPREAD OF SLAVERY where it was resisted. That is what they demanded, and went to war, to achieve. And they said so, loudly, and proudly.
NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS TOLD LINCOLN TO OBEY
Jeff Davis answered. We will be divided or we will be all slave states. In fact, when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, it drove Davis so nuts he promised to invade the North and make the entire US a slave nation -- a little fact Southern apologist "forget" to mention.
No one in the North intended to fight a war to end slavery. Lincoln was a genius on many levels -- but especially on presenting the war as one for Union, with the end of slavery as a "collateral effect." You can find 100 quotes where LIncoln seems to only care about Union. But try to grasp this -- his actions were to end slavery.
JEFF DAVIS KNEW WHAT LINCOLN WAS UP TO.
Jeff Davis was screaming his head off that Lincoln's real goal was to stop the SPREAD of slavery. In fact, the South correctly interpreted Lincoln's goal for years -- to stop the spread of slavery. It was not that hard to do -- the whole reason he got back into politics was the spread of slavery into Kansas by thugs and the Dred Scott decision.
People don't realize it now, but many people in the North had never seen a slave, outside major cities. And 80% of the population was rural.Escaped and freed slaves were not part of day to day white society. Most people in the South saw slaves daily, most people in the North never did, until after the Civil War.
Many Northerners assumed, basically, that blacks were somehow sub human and inferior.
WE ARE DEALING WITH SUB HUMANS HERE -- USSC speaks.
The United States Supreme Court had declared blacks "so inferior" that "no white person" could possibly assume blacks had any rights from God. That's the harsh language of the Dred Scott decision. Oh, I know, we teach our kids that Dred Scott was about citizenship. Bullshit -- read it yourself. It was about slaves - even freed blacks -- being HUMAN or not, in the eyes of the court.
And the decision by Taney Court -- no, they are not human. For constitutional purposes, they are property.
As Lincoln said over and over, Dred Scott's goal was to make blacks "property and nothing but property". For some goofy reason, we have adopted the Orwellian double talk of the South, and rejected the plain spoken truth of Lincoln, on this Dred Scott issue, and many others.
The Dred Scott decision said that blacks were SO inferior, that no Congress, no state, no city, noone, in any way, can even GIVE blacks the rights in the Declaration of INdependence. This is a gross, foul, obscene decision - a 1000 times worse than we dare teach to our children.
And Jeff Davis said Lincoln's "disrespect" for the Dred Scott "decision" was proof the South had to use force to "assure our rights" meaning -- of course -- the SPREAD of slavery.
In fact, we have white washed the horrors and lunacy of slave owners and their supporters, such as Robert E Lee, Jeff Davis, and USSC Chief Justice Roger Taney. Only when you read SOUTHERN newspapers, SOUTHERN books, SOUTHERN speeches from that time, do you get an idea how truly vile Southern leaders were -- including Lee.
The war started when the South tried to SPREAD slavery, a huge fact that our history books refuse to say plainly.
Southern leaders said it plainly -- why not believe their own words, given a thousand times, officially, unofficially, in documents, speeches, newspapers and sermons?
They didn't just suggest slavery be spread, they didn't just demand it. They issued war ultimatums about it, and when those ultimatums were ignored -- they attacked. You simply can't get any more determined to spread slavery.
Oh, and they insisted it was the will of God, naturally.
Not the protection of slavery where it existed -- the SPREAD OF SLAVERY where it was resisted. That is what they demanded, and went to war, to achieve. And they said so, loudly, and proudly.
NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS TOLD LINCOLN TO OBEY
These Ultimatums appeared in Southern newspapers, and even New York papers picked them up and printed them. New York editors suggested Lincoln should obey, rather than be attacked.
But Lincoln could not obey, even if he wanted to, and he did not want to.. The South had demanded an absurdity. Lincoln was not going to spread slavery into Kansas for these lunatics.
See, Kansas men had just fought a 4 year war themselves -- AGAINST slavery, that was a prequel to the Civil War. Kansas men won -- the thugs sent by the slave owners lost.
Kansas voters had just rejected slavery by a stunning 98%-2%.
Probably no place in the US was more anti-slavery than Kansas. It's a tribute to Southern leaders arrogance and stupidity, frankly, that they picked the spread of slavery into Kansas as their war ultimatum. Did they really think Lincoln would spread slavery for them, where the people had just rejected it by vote and by bloody battles?
But Lincoln could not obey, even if he wanted to, and he did not want to.. The South had demanded an absurdity. Lincoln was not going to spread slavery into Kansas for these lunatics.
See, Kansas men had just fought a 4 year war themselves -- AGAINST slavery, that was a prequel to the Civil War. Kansas men won -- the thugs sent by the slave owners lost.
Kansas voters had just rejected slavery by a stunning 98%-2%.
Probably no place in the US was more anti-slavery than Kansas. It's a tribute to Southern leaders arrogance and stupidity, frankly, that they picked the spread of slavery into Kansas as their war ultimatum. Did they really think Lincoln would spread slavery for them, where the people had just rejected it by vote and by bloody battles?
Of course, the Southern leaders knew Lincoln and the North were not going to spread slavery. But this is how arrogant and violent these guys were.. This was also how extreme the rhetoric had become.
Cooler heads were rejected as the most extreme hate filled orators dominated.
SOUTHERN LEADERS GRADUATE FROM SCHOOL OF HELL.
In 1780, the largest slave owner in the US, George Mason, founding father, predicted the Civil War would be caused by men "raised from birth" to see slavery as ordained by God, that large parts of humanity were essentially sub human.
Mason essentially said these leaders may look like gentleman, but they are petty tyrants, brutes, and the "poisoned mind" has crushed out empathy and kindness. Slavery was "a school from hell" from which Southern leaders would graduate.
These leader -- from the school of hell -- would lead the nation into a calamity over slavery.
He could not have been more correct. While we are taught that Southern leaders were "Christian gentleman" -- they were tyrants who actually did get what they wanted by violence and threats. Lee, for example, regularly torture slaves, he even tortured slave girls so young his regular overseer refuse to whip them. Lee simply ordered someone else to whip her.
By the way, she was very very light skinned, as was her child, so light skinned, Lee wrote, it could pass for white.
What kind of mind has young girls tied up and tortured? Someone whose mind was poisoned by the slavery -- that kind.
Every Southern leader had grown up in this madness. If you grew up like they did, and were preached the God of Slavery, and got power and prestige because of slavery like they did, you would do the same things they did.
So Southern leaders were "special". And it effected their thinking, their world view. Normal humans do not promise war if they could not spread slavery. But that is exactly, precisely, what they did. And they said so at the time. History text books try to make it seem less insane and cruel, but it was very insane, and very cruel.
Later, of course, after the Confederates lost, they changed their excuse --- as Confederate leader John Mosbey admitted. Of course it was about slavery, Mosbey wrote after the war. After we lost, everyone made up lofty excuses, he said. Precisely. And Southern apologist have been making up lofty excuses for 150 years.
" WHITE SCUM" HAD NO RIGHTS
Do you know what Southern leaders called whites who were against slavery?
Well one word was "SCUM". White scum. And these white scum were talked about the way HItler talked about Jews, if not worse.
Southern leaders blamed "white scum" or abolitionist for everything.
Jefferson Davis said of abolitionist were "the evil serpent" who "whispered the lie of freedom" into the ear of the slave. If not for the evil serpent, the slaves would have "natural affection" for his master, Davis insisted.
Lee said much the same thing. All the problems, Lee said, were from those "abolitionist" who are "trying to destroy the American Church". Leave slaves alone -- and things will be fine. It's not slaves themselves that want freedom, it's those "outside agitators".
Aboslute rubbish. Slaves wanted freedom and their escapes, resistance, and even suicides proved it. But slave owners could not admit that in their head. GOD ordained slavery. God would not ordain something evil.
The problem was those "scum" that were AGAINST GOD and Civilization.
That's right the AMERICAN CHURCH. Lee literally equated owning slaves with church. Slavery was "a spiritual liberty", Lee wrote to his wife.
Oh -- you didn't know that?
Guess who Southern leader said the "First abolitionist" was? Go on, guess?
SATAN. Satan was the first abolitionist. Slavery was "ordained of God" said virtually every Southern leader, including Robert E Lee. The only reason you don't know it, these and other horrors have been whitewashed from our history books.
And you would never find out about it, if you depended on US text books, which have whitewashed the really vile parts of Southern history. In fact, even when college professors give lectures on causes of Civil War, they STILL, 150 years later, have to be very careful not to offend the South.
How about just telling the truth?
Well one word was "SCUM". White scum. And these white scum were talked about the way HItler talked about Jews, if not worse.
Southern leaders blamed "white scum" or abolitionist for everything.
Jefferson Davis said of abolitionist were "the evil serpent" who "whispered the lie of freedom" into the ear of the slave. If not for the evil serpent, the slaves would have "natural affection" for his master, Davis insisted.
Lee said much the same thing. All the problems, Lee said, were from those "abolitionist" who are "trying to destroy the American Church". Leave slaves alone -- and things will be fine. It's not slaves themselves that want freedom, it's those "outside agitators".
Aboslute rubbish. Slaves wanted freedom and their escapes, resistance, and even suicides proved it. But slave owners could not admit that in their head. GOD ordained slavery. God would not ordain something evil.
The problem was those "scum" that were AGAINST GOD and Civilization.
That's right the AMERICAN CHURCH. Lee literally equated owning slaves with church. Slavery was "a spiritual liberty", Lee wrote to his wife.
Oh -- you didn't know that?
Guess who Southern leader said the "First abolitionist" was? Go on, guess?
SATAN. Satan was the first abolitionist. Slavery was "ordained of God" said virtually every Southern leader, including Robert E Lee. The only reason you don't know it, these and other horrors have been whitewashed from our history books.
JEFF DAVIS EQUATES WHITE SCUM WITH "SATAN"
And you would never find out about it, if you depended on US text books, which have whitewashed the really vile parts of Southern history. In fact, even when college professors give lectures on causes of Civil War, they STILL, 150 years later, have to be very careful not to offend the South.
How about just telling the truth?
Anyway, back to the Five Ultimatums. Two weeks after the Ultimatum, the South attacked. The South, like the slave owners who controlled them, did not issue idle threats. IF they said they would torture a woman or sell a child -- they did. And if they said they would attack if Lincoln did not spread slavery -- they did.. You probably heard about the attack -- Fort Sumter, the start of Civil War.
Later of course, the South tried to act like "slavery? What slavery? Oh, no, we were just for smaller government and states rights."
Actually slavery was extreme government control, that oppressed blacks, of course, but also oppressed whites who didn't agree with slavery.
WHY DIDN'T THE SOUTH RESPECT "STATES RIGHTS" OF KANSAS??
Really -- GO READ THEM. It is astonishing how difficult it is to get Southern apologist to even read what their own leaders were screaming every day for years.
But of course, they are in denial, and don't want to read it.
Of course, the South's lunatic mission to spread slavery did not start in May of 1861. This madness had taken three generations. But Kansas stood out because it was so clear to everyone -- even to the South -- that people in Kansas hated slavery. Not only hated it, but would fight against it.
So anti slavery feelings were more apparent in Kansas, where people still had free speech. (Free speech about slavery was outlawed in the South from 1820's on) Many in the South hated slavery too -- but their voices were silenced by GOD said one Southern leader.
God had "silenced" the abolitionist (scum) by "His Holy Word". Well, not really, the strict laws against free speech and the torture, intimidation, and deportations of people who were against slavery was what actually silenced most opposition to slavery in the South.
But in Kansas, the slave owners could not get laws against speaking out -- they tried though. One of the first things slave owners always did, if they could, is simply outlaw any speech, writing, or books that even questioned slavery.
OHHH -- you didn't know that either? Right. I forgot. You were educated by text books approved and edited by Southern states. No wonder.
If slave owners could not get laws passed against free speech, they would just sent thugs and killers to Kansas to intimidate and force slavery down their throats.
Remember, these were men who got what they wanted by violence, if their other deceptions did not work. And remember too, that to Southern leaders, the white settlers who didn't want slavery were "scum".
Really, go read the speeches yourself. They are not in history books -- they should be, but they are not. They are in the newspapers, some of which have been digitized, you can read them yourself.
And you should.
That's how John Brown got his start -- he was reacting against the murders of Kansas men by paid thugs sent to terrorize white people into accepting slavery.
If you don't slave owners sent killers and thugs to Kansas to terrorize, and that Kansas was spark that lit the fires of the Civil War, go slap your history teachers.
And the spread of slavery was EVERY issue -- tariff, related to slavery. Admission of new states -- all about slavery. Personal liberty lawss -- related to slavery. Fugitive slave laws -- of course, about slavery.
Only morons -- honestly -- or delusional idiots or liars can say slavery had nothing to do with the civil war. Slavery was the oxygen in the air.
Specifically, it was the insane violent attempts to SPREAD slavery that led to it's downfall. Only when the South tried to force slavery everywhere -- even to the North (yes, they tried that too) did the North respond and kick their ass. That is the Civil War in a nutshell.
These were not a few nutty extreme zealots -- these were the leaders, who controlled politics, economics, and newspapers in the South. Davis, Stepehens, Toombs. Nearly every Confederate leader either owned slaves or came from slave owning family.
INTOLERABLE GRIEVANCE - ACCORDING TO DAVIS
These were not historians later trying to make the South look bad. In fact, historians have yet to to expose the South's lunatic leaders in this manner, though they should. Sadly it's not politically correct to expose "Christian" lunacy regarding their violent attempts to spread slavery -- and spread it where it was overwhelmingly rejected by the population.
But the South grew extremely religious BECAUSE of it's fierce defense of slavery. From 1800 -1860, the spread of slavery grew more violent, and more infused with religion, each year.
The Southern papers show their leaders were livid -- at ANYTHING anti slavery. In fact, Southern leaders demanded the North arrest whites who even wrote books that questioned slavery -- and have them sent to the South for execution!
You just can't make up crazier stuff than what actually occurred in the South leading up to the Civil War.
Even Lee defended the torture of slaves, (as he called it "painful discipline") because slavery is "ordained and intended" by God, and pain is "necessary for their instruction."
That's right PAIN is necessary for their INSTRUCTION. And Lee was one of the so called "moderates"!
And if you don't grasp that yet, re-read the Ultimatums. That is what the Ultimatums were -- spread slavery AGAINST the will of the people or we attack. Remember, the slavery was already stopped in Kansas. Slavers had tried to push slavery by violence -- it was rejected by violence. They tried to push slavery by legislation and court action (Dred Scott).
But people in Kansas STILL rejected slavery. So the Confederates really had no choice. They had to secede, and then attack Kansas not with a few bandits and hired thugs, but with the Confederate Army, made up of former US Army troops and leaders.
Oh -- they didn't tell you that? Well, there is a lot they don't explain about Southern leaders, and their insane violent demands to spread slavery is just one of those.
Today, confederate sympathizers dare not mention what their heroes bragged about at the time.
These things are not taught in school, they would send young kids home crying. We have absurdly and stupidly allowed the Southern apologist to essentially write the history of slavery and the Civil War. And they took out everything that made them look like violent radical terrorists who were pushing for the spread of salvery per the word of God.
In fact, official Texas documents explaining why the seceded said of the "scum" that they "are against God and Civilization".
Southern leaders wanted Northerners who wrote books against slavery to be arrested and sent to the South for execution! These guys were lunatics. They were much more like Radical Islam nut jobs than anything Hollywood has shown.
For years Southern leaders -- almost every one a slave owner -- were promising violence, celebrating the beatings and threats against abolitionists. From 1820 on, Southern states punished those who spoke out publically against slavery -- speaking or writing anything against slavery was a CRIME.
Oh you didn't know that? Well learn about the "anti-incendiary' laws, which made it a crime to say or write anything which might "dissatisfy" a slave!
WHo the hell goes to war to SPREAD slavery per the word of God? Well, the lunatic slave owners who ran the South, that's who.
Slavery is a slow Poison, which is daily contaminating the Minds & Morals of our People. Every Gentleman here is born a petty Tyrant…. And in such an infernal School are to be educated our future Legislators & Rulers.[1]
The leaders really did go off the deep end. Not because they were inherently evil -- even if some where. They went off the deep end because they were raised to think God ordained not only slavery itself, but the TORTURE of slaves. Yes, they were. Lee defended the torture of slaves on that exact ground.
So strongly, so violently, did they want the spread of slavery, that they promised and delivered war to get it. They were willilng to kill, torture, committ treason -- not just willing but EAGER.
We should all celebrate that they got their asses kicked.
