Originally <a href='http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=24248343'>posted</a> on 07/09/2015:

Quote Originally Posted by recon1 View Post
Very little about the civil war had anything to do with slavery.
That was such an uneducated statement. And sure enough itchypickle nominates the comment. It's exhausting teaching you people. Maybe you didn't read my previous quotes by a senator and by General Robert E. Lee, about slavery relative to the Civil War and its huge importance. So here it is again, Robert E. Lee said, “We must decide whether slavery shall be extinguished by our enemies and the slaves be used against us, or use them ourselves.” Note the words "whether slavery shall be extinguished by our enemies."

Here's a quote from John S. Mosby, Confederate army cavalry battalion commander, "People must be judged by the standard of their own age. If it was right to own slaves as property it was right to fight for it. The South went to war on account of slavery. South Carolina went to war - as she said in her Secession proclamation..." Speaking of secession proclamations, here's a statement from South Carolina's causes of secession, "A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery."

Louisiana didn't have an Ordinance of Secession but sent a spokesman to Texas Secession Convention. He said, "Louisiana looks to the formation of a Southern confederacy to preserve the blessings of African slavery. ...and they are both [Louisiana and Texas] so deeply interested in African slavery that it may be said to be absolutely necessary to their existence and is the keystone to the arch of their prosperity. ...The people of the slaveholding States are bound together by the same necessity and determination to preserve African slavery."

And the last one I will provide is from Texas' causes of secession which stated, "the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, ... while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states."



And last quote by John S. Mosby, Confederate battalion commander, "I always understood that we went to War on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about. I never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery."

...And South Carolina just voted to have the flag removed. 94-20 was the vote