Civil War - James. M. McPherson - This Mighty Scourge, Perspectives on the Civil War, part 1

Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews reknowned author James M. McPherson about his book "This Mighty Scourge- Perspectives on the Civi War. Mcpherson discusses a myriad of topics including why the civil war began, the role of racism and slavery in the civil war, how foreign perspectives shaped the south's declaration of states rights, Lincoln's strategy to restore the union and what might have happened if the south had seceded.

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• lincoln
• jefferson davis
• robert e lee
• grant
• slavery
• civil war
• mcpherson
• confederacy
• yankee

[LongHairedLoser]

Just because a state declares itself to be independent, it does not make it so. The 13 colonies that made the USA were all British territory until the British receded their claim to them when they signed the treaty of Paris. Same for the CSA, until the USA recognised the CSA as independent, it was not.

Texas v. White (1868) was a court ruling which stated that no state can leave the union on it own accord.

[SovereignStatesman]

McPherson is a textbook useful idiot, government shill and party hack. He completely ignores plain English, straining out gnats and swallowing camels in order to prop up obvious lies. He's simply a prostitute for the state, giving "lip-service."

[SovereignStatesman]

@LongHairedLoser "Lincoln was playing the politician by trying to keep his nation together."

More like dictator by keeping an international republic together by force.

The founding documents ALL show the states to be free, sovereign and indpendent; that's why Lincoln had to revise history in order to deny this and claim otherwise-- just like Hitler did over Poland, or Saddam Hussein over Kuwait, as history repeated itself.

[SovereignStatesman]

@Charonveritas

You're also forgetting the sudden increase in SECURITY COSTS once the Mason-Dixon line became the FINISH-line for the Underground Railroad.

Then the most productive slaves would be most able to escape, while the most disabled and dependent ones would have no desire to do so.

So slave-states would become free-states for the same reason that the Northern ones did-- i.e. economic reasons-- and rejoin the Union.

[LongHairedLoser]

No, the border states would have left the union and joined the CSA. Lincoln was playing the politician by trying to keep his nation together.

Slavery was extremely profitable in the American south. It was far from dead. Cotton production practically doubled each year before 1860. Why would the south willingly give it up? Slavery in Cuba and Brazil was still flourishing at that time.

Europe brought cotton from Egypt because the civil war stopped them from buying from the south.

[Charonveritas]

@LongHairedLoser So you're saying that if Lincoln freed the slaves in the border states, THEY would join the Confederacy? So they would join a group that you say was trying to enslave them? Did you actually think before you typed this response?

Warehouses in Europe were bulging from a bumper crop of cotton from Egypt in 1860, so the value was down for the South. Slavery around the world was dying, look it up, t's really easy to do.

The war was about States Rights...

[LongHairedLoser]

Lincoln did not free the slaves in the border states because doing so would have pushed them into joining the CSA.

Slavery was certainly not dying around the world. Cotton production in the southern states was increasing during the 1850's and 60's. The south was getting rich off of their institution and that's why they wanted to expand and protect it.

It seems the lost cause myth of the confederacy has gotten hold of you.

[Charonveritas]

@LongHairedLoser I see you have an appropriate scrn name...

Then let me pose a question to you. Why did Lincoln free the slaves he had NO control over, but did nothing to free the slaves he did have control over?

"The causes of the war were all linked to slavery and its expansion." Slavery was dying around the world and you think it was expanding? The "revisionists" have their hooks in you...

[LongHairedLoser]

States rights was an issue for the south, states rights to stop the nation government to prohibit slavery and its expansion. The causes of the war were all linked to slavery and its expansion.

[Charonveritas]

@Hawkins1117 States Rights was the primary cause of the War from the South's view, but these clowns like KayBee and 68bootyman want everyone to believe it was all about slavery... That's simply wrong.