re: Ole Miss student senate votes to remove state flag.

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Man, you have gotten owned nine ways from Sunday in this thread.

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Do you have anything relevant to add to the conversation?

Care to elaborate on exactly how the Civil War was not about state rights? I mean we are pretty much in a straw man here. These guys think the war was all about slavery and I think the scope was much more boarder than that. I mean you can go back in history and see that the North didn't care a damn about slaves themselves. Some states did but as a whole had the civil war not happened not much would have changed during that particular time. Lincoln never liked slavery in general but he wasn't going to go to war over it until after the states decided to succeed hence why the Emancipation Proclamation came 3 years after the war started. That proclamation was not only aimed at the Rebels, however—it was designed to force the moral factor of slavery into the forefront before Britain (which had banned the slave trade in 1831) and France—both of which had been considering recognizing the Confederacy. In doing this, Lincoln turned a battle that on the tactical level had been an unsatisfying marginal victory for the North into a major strategic victory.

See the problem I have with people saying the civil war was all about slavery. Slavery didn't even enter into the picture of the war until Lincoln emancipation proclamation. That was used as a tool for boarder support in the war and a brilliant strategy to do so as well. Sure you can find documents were the South defends there rights to have slaves but that was apart of the other rights they had as well which was mention in those documents. Those rights of course would include trade, economics, the right for the states to govern themselves and slavery. Also the South wanted there own Nation and President. See the main issue with this war was that the Confederacy wanted the freedom to govern themselves.