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The War Between the States

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Southern bitterness you say? NOT AT AAAAAALL! :sarcasticclap:

Yes. This is how the civil war happened....Yes...

I was actually drawing this in government class, and was going to finish it at the second-to-last panel, so I put down my pencil and actually started listening. The teacher was talking about presidential pardons, and right then she talked about how the president after Lincoln (I think it was Johnson, but don't quote me on that) gave a presidential pardon in the form of amnesty to all the men who fought for the Confederacy. And I was like WTF?! I know that NOW secession rights have been taken away from states, but back then, that was totally legit. So the whole thing shouldn't really have been a treason issue. The Confederacy was technically its own country that went to war with a totally different country, the USA. Which means it wasn't a civil war at all, it was just a regular war. However, the Confederacy ran into pretty much the same problems as the Republic of Texas *cough* Bankruptcy, no industry, starvation *cough*

Wow, that was a long rant. Maybe I'm more bitter than I thought I was.
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PeteSeeger's avatar
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that state that states can at any time they please, succeed. So the South's attempt to leave the Union was most certainly an act of treason, and this is before you consider the moral implications of a country's "right" to allow it's people to own other human beings.