House Republicans want to prevent the Pentagon from removing a Confederate memorial from “America’s most sacred shrine,” Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia led a group of more than 40 GOP colleagues in calling for the Department of Defense to halt the planned removal of the Reconciliation Monument, also known as the Confederate Memorial, “until Congress completes the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations process.”
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the GOP lawmakers said the monument’s removal “does not align with the original intent of Congress.”
FWIW they didn’t try to overthrow the United States. They tried to leave the United States because they hated America for failing to enforce slavery. Confederate states already controlled Congress, but they could not abuse their majority power to subjugate the rest of the country, so they decided they wanted to leave.
FWIW, At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War.
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Read the very next sentence, and then the rest of the article.
Word for word, it supports what I wrote. The pro-slavery contingent already had a majority in government, and the secessionist resignations caused a crisis in government. They weren’t trying to take over, they were trying to leave because they had no faith in the power of the federal government to enforce slavery, which was the law of the land.
If they wanted to just leave they probably shouldn’t have bombarded Fort Sumter - would’ve still been a war but the narrative may have played to their dumb Lost Cause bullshit better.
Also they turned traitor because new states joining wouldn’t be slave states, and thus they would become a minority and slavery would disappear.
If my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bicycle.
The Confederates bombarded Fort Sumter because they knew they could take it and they wanted it. The narrative was always going to be tied to slavery, and even if they had won the war and become independent nations, they would still be racist shitbags.
The joining of new states was also part of it, and one could argue that the writing was on the wall for the abolitionist movement. But the fact remains that the Confederate states opposed states’ rights on the subject of slavery, and wanted to enforce slavery in all states. When Lincoln won, it became clear that wouldn’t happen despite the fact that they already were in control of the legislature. So they tried to leave, and take half of America with them.
I thought it was more due to not permitting slavery in the newer territories? Enforce makes it sound like slavery was mandatory.
Nope. Lincoln wasn’t threatening to free the slaves prior to seceesion, and the Escaped Slaves Act was federal law. Southern states had the majority in Congress, but individual states like Wisconsin and Vermont were freeing slaves that reached their borders, and Lincoln was not going to use force to override states rights. The articles of secession were written because the southern states didn’t think the Union was doing enough to enforce slavery, which was, at least on paper, mandatory.