The confederate states didn't want to take on the debt to the crown, unknown and undisclosed to them at the time they joined the union. When the debt came due and Lincoln informed them of this "minor detail", which he was HIRED & SELECTED to do as a BAR attorney, with massive compound interest as compared to the original 6 million francs during the revolutionary war, 70-years later as per international bankruptcy rules (1789 -> 1859), they wanted no part of it and seceded. And BTW, the crown purchased the US debt originally owed to the French government. In an attempt to gain the "moral high ground", the British infiltrators (crown) then played the slavery card.
Also, 99% of southerners didn't own slaves. Only the "elite" 1% did. Funny how some things never change, eh?
There's a great archived audio at the library of Congress of a man who fought in the Civil War as a teenager. The recording was made in the 1930s I believe. He said nobody thought they were fighting to keep slavery in the south, but instead he was under the impression they were fighting for "states rights" as the federal interlopers were trying to impose their "rules", mistakenly referred to as "laws" by the brainwashed masses, on the states, precisely as the founding-fathers had warned.
Any way you slice it, it's quite obvious southerners weren't sacrificing their families to protect something they had no vested interest in...in the first place.
The confederate states didn't want to take on the debt to the crown, unknown and undisclosed to them at the time they joined the union. When the debt came due and Lincoln informed them of this "minor detail", which he was HIRED & SELECTED to do as a BAR attorney, with massive compound interest as compared to the original 6 million francs during the revolutionary war, 70-years later as per international bankruptcy rules (1789 -> 1859), they wanted no part of it and seceded. And BTW, the crown purchased the US debt originally owed to the French government. In an attempt to gain the "moral high ground", the British infiltrators (crown) then played the slavery card.
Also, 99% of southerners didn't own slaves. Only the "elite" 1% did. Funny how some things never change, eh?
There's a great archived audio at the library of Congress of a man who fought in the Civil War as a teenager. The recording was made in the 1930s I believe. He said nobody thought they were fighting to keep slavery in the south, but instead he was under the impression they were fighting for "states rights" as the federal interlopers were trying to impose their "rules", mistakenly referred to as "laws" by the brainwashed masses, on the states, precisely as the founding-fathers had warned.
Any way you slice it, it's quite obvious southerners weren't sacrificing their families to protect something they had no vested interest in...in the first place.