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In the
previous sections, we established the motives and intentions
of the Framers of our Constitution as well as the fact that secession was
a legitimate and constitutional right. Furthermore, we established
that the U.S. government of 1861 denied that secession was a right and
declared willingness to wage a bloody war to
prove it. In the process, the Constitutional Union they ostensibly sought to
"preserve" was destroyed and replaced with an empire ruled by elitists
in a central capitol.
"The sword is mighty, but principles laugh at swords.
Overwhelming force may crush truth to earth but, crushed or not the truth
is still the truth." --John S. Tilley,The Coming of the
Glory
The previous sections were necessary to support the
conclusions reached in the analysis that follows. We're now prepared
to evaluate the ultimate question, a question about which there remains a good deal of
misunderstanding ---some caused by deliberate and malicious propaganda and
some by benevolent ignorance----and the answer to which leads to many
significant points that are relevant to the present 21st Century, the
third century of American independence. [Please read this last
paragraph again.]
The ultimate question
is....
Why
was there a war? The answer in simplest terms
is... because Lincoln and his
government chose not
to allow the southern
states to leave in peace. But let's resist the temptation to
over-simplify.
All the wars of human history can be boiled down to
three causes which often overlap:
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Envy/Greed: One party
desires to take something (territory, water rights, gold, wealth)
someone else has
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Distrust/Fear:
One party fears the other party or parties (militarily) and decides to
attack first
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Arrogance: One party believes the other
party inferior or contrary to their beliefs (religion, slavery,
oppression, lack of technology)
All the above came into play in the
war in question. Let's evaluate the causes of the War for Southern
Independence by breaking it down to key questions and corollaries.
Each link below will take the reader to an analysis of each question
before returning here to proceed.
....under
construction
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