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Sun, 30 Jun 2024 09:57:56 +0300
last edited: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 10:34:18 +0300
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kuchinster
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Sun, 30 Jun 2024 03:10:18 +0300
Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War
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The American Civil War was fought from April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865. It was a most savage and brutal war. At the time the population of the United States was around 30 million. The civil war resulted in the deaths of approximately 620,000 individuals. This is a staggering figure for a single nation, and that too 160 years ago! If one were to extrapolate these figures to the current US population of 341.8 million, the deaths would stand at a little over 7 million! The one man responsible for this carnage and bloodshed was none other than the much revered Abraham Lincoln. Why was the unnecessary war really fought, how did it impact the real character of the Federation known as the United States, and what was Lincoln’s true role in this bloody episode? These questions will be addressed briefly in what follows.
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Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:58:47 +0300
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robin1@diaspora.psyco.fr
The official name for the conflict is
"the War Between the States
. The reason we don’t call it “the American Civil War” is because by definition a civil war is fought
between two factions of the same nation
. That was not the case here. Eleven sovereign States_ lawfully seceded_ from the Union and formed
a separate nation
– the Confederate States of America. The War was waged by the USA against the CSA to force them back into their Union. This was done without a Congressional Declaration of War. The entire episode was unconstitutional and illegal.
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Sun, 30 Jun 2024 21:33:13 +0300
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arnst
arnst@diasp.eu
It would have been interesting to see when the south would finally give in to progress.
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Sun, 30 Jun 2024 21:52:13 +0300
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robin1@diaspora.psyco.fr
Most historians agree that slavery would have died a natural death in another few years anyway had the South not resisted Federal invasion and won it's independence. But the economy would have largely remain egalitarian. The constitution of the CSA was nearly identical to that of the USA, but with much greater restraints placed on it's national government. Imagine if such a Constitution were in place
now
in the USA!
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Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:38:10 +0300
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arnst
arnst@diasp.eu
Restrained government is good, unless you have a democracy.
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