> The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.
That's what the Vice President of the CSA said.
The states also issued declarations of causes. Let's look at a couple of them:
> A brief history of the rise, progress, and policy of anti-slavery and the political organization into whose hands the administration of the Federal Government has been committed will fully justify the pronounced verdict of the people of Georgia.
> Mississippi
> Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world.
The CSA attempted to leave over the issue of slavery. Trying to say it was otherwise is to buy into the discredited Lost Cause narrative.
> The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.
That's what the Vice President of the CSA said.
The states also issued declarations of causes. Let's look at a couple of them:
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...
> Georgia
> A brief history of the rise, progress, and policy of anti-slavery and the political organization into whose hands the administration of the Federal Government has been committed will fully justify the pronounced verdict of the people of Georgia.
> Mississippi
> Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world.
The CSA attempted to leave over the issue of slavery. Trying to say it was otherwise is to buy into the discredited Lost Cause narrative.
https://www.nps.gov/resources/story.htm%3Fid%3D217
https://daily.jstor.org/origins-confederate-lost-cause/