Gettysburg Soundtrack: March to Mortality(Pickett's Charge)

Composed by Randy Edelman 1993

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[Vladimast]

@darknessesbane Slavery the primary cause...? Was it one? Yes. Was it the Primary? No. The south had most of America's wealth. The North was spending money hand over fist like they are now and wanted it. Look up the Merrill Tarriff.

I would have seceded too, which is not illegal. There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution or any other legal document which precludes any state or group of states from seceding from the United States. This was also true in 1861.

[MegaCastigers]

is it march to mortality or imortality?

[Vladimast]

@robinbarryg agreed, Jews built the pyramids.

[Vladimast]

@archer1949 Then you have to ask the same of your very own General Grant, who owned 5 slaves up until 1865 when he was forced to free them with the addition of the 13th amendment.

If you try to tell me there was no slavery in the North then you are a hypocrite. I have toured a Plantation in Illinois. Yes, Illinois, and Lincoln himself stayed there during his campaign. The slaves were kept upstairs and the conditions up there were horrible.

[archer1949]

@Vladimast If Slavery was so inconsequential, why didn't they begin Emancipation upon declaration of Secession, like General Longstreet suggested? If nothing else, it would have weakened the Federal cause and helped foreign recognition.

Why didn't they begin conscripting Black troops with the promise of freedom as General Lee wanted in the last half of the War?

The fact that the politicians hung on to slavery despite all sense makes it seem it was pretty crucial to their war aims.

[Vladimast]

@SWASDN Very good points. Yea, I remember bleeding Kansas. I just argue that the Morrill Tarriff was one of the items that made the pot boil over, that really angered enough Southerners to opt out. That being said, there are soooo many other causes of this war it is impossible to review them all.

Nothing angers me more than hearing people try to argue it was completely about slavery. It couldn't be further form the truth.

[SWASDN]

@Vladimast You know, that Tarriff wasn't really at the core of causes. In reality the northern and southern colonies were ready to go to war with one another right after the Revolution. Every president from Washington to Buchanan had to sit on the knowledge that at any moment the fighting could erupt.In fact in Kansas it really did before the war officially started. It was something that was long-in-coming.

[Vladimast]

@darknessesbane you can't deny the fight for state's rights though. Yes, Slavery was a primary cause, but was it the only one? no. The State's rights fight continues on today.

[Man4God4eva]

How did a well-written soundtrack piece get turned into an angry North vs. South argument? Seriously, I'm pro-South, but can't we just set aside our differences and enjoy the music and not fight the War all over again on Youtube?