Did Six Flags Go too far?

[Xolodno]

41. One thing everyone forgets...

...The Confederacy started the war.

Lincoln stated they could not secede, but that's about enforceable as enforcing all royal lineage back in control in Europe. He didn't have a leg to stand on to enforce it and if he asked Congress to go to war, the tenth amendment no doubt would have caused many to decide against. If the South didn't fire on Ft. Sumter, the CSA could conceivably still exist today. In fact, the 13th Amendment was approved by the 2/3rds required in Congress that excluded the Southern States, as they obviously had no representation, de-facto if you will, recognition of the CSA. Once the CSA was defeated, reconstruction governments...essentially appointed governments, ratified the 13th Amendment, if memory serves me correctly, a requirement to being re-admitted to the Union....another implicit recognition of the CSA.

But at the same time, succession would accomplish what they wanted, to contain slavery only to where it existed and not expand. The South wanted to expand it to the new territory it took from the Mexican-American War. But since that was "territory" and not States, it could not join the South. So it had to be taken by force. The greed of the slave owners ironically did not only stop them from taking western territory, it ultimately cost them their slave holdings.