Good comment. But you forgot to mention one of the biggest flash points that led to the civil war- Democrat election rigging via the Three-Fifths Compromise.
Not only were the lazy [slave owning] fat cat democrats (1% of the population of the south) exploiting slave labor for profit, but they were also leveraging slave ownership for the purpose of rigging federal elections by gerrymandering the population counts of congressional voting districts!
They counted slaves as population in democrat stronghold regions to add congressional house seats (new democrat aligned districts) that otherwise would not have existed. They have been rigging elections for over a hundred years, it's in the DNA of the democrat party.
Actually, the 3/5 comprise was an anti-slavery measure that sped up the inevitable end of slavery. Had the slavers had their way at the Constitutional Convention, they'd have gotten 100% of slave population count towards representation. The anti-slavery voices argued that if slavers could count slaves, then they can count cattle and livestock. Without getting it down to 3/5, it would have taken at least 50 more years for the free states to take Congress and the Presidency. Because of the 3/5 and ban on importation of slaves, slave reproduction rate couldn't outpace reproduction rate of free people and the influx of European immigrants to the north/west. Basically, the "compromise" was a poison pill towards abolition.
Had the slavers had their way at the Constitutional Convention, they'd have gotten 100% of slave population count towards representation.
Correct. Had the democrats got what they wanted they could have continued to buy all the slaves they could afford, count all of them as population, and created dozens, if not hundreds of newly fabricated congressional house seats- all for the purpose of packing the US congress with more democrat congressmen. Their purpose was never to act as representatives of the public, but to seize power by any means necessary- just like today.
Election rigging, and exploiting the population for their personal power and wealth. Old democrats, same as the new democrats. That party needed to be outlawed in 1861, and their ashes scattered into the wind.
Good comment. But you forgot to mention one of the biggest flash points that led to the civil war- Democrat election rigging via the Three-Fifths Compromise.
Not only were the lazy [slave owning] fat cat democrats (1% of the population of the south) exploiting slave labor for profit, but they were also leveraging slave ownership for the purpose of rigging federal elections by gerrymandering the population counts of congressional voting districts!
They counted slaves as population in democrat stronghold regions to add congressional house seats (new democrat aligned districts) that otherwise would not have existed. They have been rigging elections for over a hundred years, it's in the DNA of the democrat party.
Actually, the 3/5 comprise was an anti-slavery measure that sped up the inevitable end of slavery. Had the slavers had their way at the Constitutional Convention, they'd have gotten 100% of slave population count towards representation. The anti-slavery voices argued that if slavers could count slaves, then they can count cattle and livestock. Without getting it down to 3/5, it would have taken at least 50 more years for the free states to take Congress and the Presidency. Because of the 3/5 and ban on importation of slaves, slave reproduction rate couldn't outpace reproduction rate of free people and the influx of European immigrants to the north/west. Basically, the "compromise" was a poison pill towards abolition.
Correct. Had the democrats got what they wanted they could have continued to buy all the slaves they could afford, count all of them as population, and created dozens, if not hundreds of newly fabricated congressional house seats- all for the purpose of packing the US congress with more democrat congressmen. Their purpose was never to act as representatives of the public, but to seize power by any means necessary- just like today.
Election rigging, and exploiting the population for their personal power and wealth. Old democrats, same as the new democrats. That party needed to be outlawed in 1861, and their ashes scattered into the wind.
Amen to that fren