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Gee I wonder why? Because they all are about SLAVERY. Let me give you a few examples.

Texas Official Declaration of Causes of Secession .February 2, 1861

“We hold as undeniable truths…the African race is inferior – that the servitude of the African race is the revealed will of the Almighty Creator,

“[the North has] proclaimed the debasing doctrine of the equality of all men, –a doctrine in violation of Divine Law.

(TEXAS — WHAT DO THEY KNOW)

Mississippi Declaration of Secession:January 1861

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery– the greatest material interest of the world. ..Products that slaves produce are peculiar to the [southern] climate and none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, therefore a blow at slavery is a blow at civilization ..

(MISSISSIPPI — – WHAT DO THEY KNOW)

South Carolina Declaration of Secession Jan 1861

We affirm the action Northern States have attempted to decide on the propriety of our domestic institution (slavery). The Northern states have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies to encourage our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.

(South Carolina was stupid too – it had nothing to do with slavery!!)

Georgia Declaration of Secession

The people of Georgia present to the world the causes which have led to the separation.

For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slaveholding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery.

(Georgia ! They should know better, oh well)

Florida Declaration of Causes

Northern States books have been published and circulated amongst us the direct tendency and avowed purpose of which is to excite insurrection by slaves

A President has recently been elected (Lincoln) , an obscure and illiterate man without experience who often proclaims that no more slave States shall be admitted into the union. If no more states are admitted, then the present slaves from their rapid increase in birth will become worthless to their owners. Nothing is more certain than this –and at no distant day.

No more slave states admitted ? What must be the condition of the slaves themselves when their number becomes so large that their labor will be of no value to their owners? The black race has a natural tendency to idleness vagrancy and crime, which will be increased by an inability to procure subsistence, if they become worthless as slaves.

[stopping slavery from expanding] is in so many words saying we will not burn you at the stake but we will torture you to death by a slow fire. It is saying we will not confiscate your property and consign you to a residence and equality with the african, but that destiny certainly awaits your children.

(Florida — silly bastards, didn’t they get the memo? It had nothing to do with slavery)

Alabama Speech just prior to Secession

I feel impelled, Mr. President, to vote for Secession by an overruling necessity. Years ago I was convinced that the Southern States would be compelled either to separate from the North, by dissolving the Federal Government, or they would be compelled to abolish the institution of African Slavery.

The day is now come,[because Lincoln was elected] when Alabama he must submit to a system of policy to abolish African Slavery.

Mr. President, poverty, would be one of the least of the evils that would befall us from the abolition of African slavery. There are now in the slaveholding States over four millions of slaves; dissolve the relation of master and slave, and what, I ask, would become of that race?

To remove them from amongst us is impossible. History gives us no account of the exodus of such a number of persons. We neither have a place to which to remove them, nor the means of such removal.

They therefore must remain with us; and if the relation of master and slave be dissolved, and our slaves turned loose amongst us without restraint, they would either be destroyed by our own hands– the hands to which they look, and look with confidence, for protection– or we ourselves would become demoralized and degraded.

The former result would take place, and we ourselves would become the executioners of our own slaves.

(What a retard! Slavery had nothing to DO with it – he must be reading Northern papers)

SECESSION IN PUTNAM COUNTY, TENN.
BY J. M. MORGAN, GAINESBORO

Preamble

“The antislavery party is the enemy of the Union and the Constitution, advocating the equality of the negro and the white races and the abolition of slavery. To accomplish this the antislavery party has been organized and now constitutes the dominant party in all the free States. And now, having [won the election] it is attempting by conquest and coercion to carry out its damnable heresies [of equality of races] entertained for many vears toward the South and its institutions.

That we will resist Lincolns usurpation unto death; that, we have no compromise with tyranny or with the tyrant who has trampled our Constitution and now seeks to enslave us

(What do they know? Where they there? Oh, that’s right — they were there)

Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of Confederate States
March 21, 1861 Savannah, Georgia

Regarding our new Confederate Constitution. It has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution. African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization.

Slavery was the immediate cause of present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, The prevailing ideas entertained by most of the Founding Fathers were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.

Our new Confederacy is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

The Confederacy is the first government ever instituted upon the principles in strict conformity to nature, and the ordination of Almighty God. . Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race; such were and are in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature’s laws. With us, all of the white race, however high or low, rich or poor, are equal in the eye of the law.

Not so with the negro. Subordination is his place. He, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is designed for slavery. The negro is the substratum of our society. And by experience we know that it is best for the inferior negro race, that it should be so.

Slavery is conformity with the ordinance of the Almighty Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of His Holy ordinances, nor should we even question them. For His own purposes, He has made one race to differ from another, Our confederacy is founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws of Almighty God.

Source: Henry Cleveland, Alexander H. Stephens, in Public and Private: With Letters and Speeches, Before, During, and Since the War (Philadelphia, 1886), pp. 717-729.

(Stephens was just the leading spokesman for the Confederacy – what does he know?

But Lincoln wins the election. If the other guy wins – the South is fine. But they don’t get their guy in. So they see red.

Why is that?

Nor was Lincoln threatening to end slavery. He even stated he was sworn to uphold the laws of the land — including slavery laws. Including Dred Scott. Lincoln stated repeatedly he hoped to stop the SPREAD of slavery in a constitutional way if he could.

So why did the South secede?

Well they said why – in their own Declarations of Secession.

Opening paragraph, Mississippi Declaration of Secession:

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery– the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun.

Opening paragraph, Georgia Declaration of Secession:

The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery.

From the Texas Declaration of Secession:

Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated Union…She was received into the confederacy…as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery– the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits– a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.

In all the non-slave-holding States…the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party…based upon an unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color– a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of Divine Law. They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and negro races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States

…all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that 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, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations…

From the South Carolina Declaration of Secession:

We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.

The libertarian position on American slavery is that it was an affront to all human liberties and was completely wrong. Slavery is anathema to any libertarian society. There are other forms of slavery, too, though, that exist in modern society without many people commenting on them. Slavery can be, for instance, if you work hard at a business and then have to fork most of that over to the government, or if you have to work two jobs and can never spend time with your kids because the government has been devaluing the dollar.

The system that ignored inequity of wealth is the current one we have (which is by no means libertarian in nature), in which the government is in bed with corporations and ignores the “common” people. That would not happen in a libertarian society (the government wouldn’t have unlimited powers to grant favors to certain corporations over others).

“When a libertarian admits the need for some government then they are moving away from libertarianism.” How is that so? Libertarianism simply means a small government that protects rights. The government will still have to resolve some conflicts. Who will pay for the government? Who pays for the government now? How would that be any different? The difference is that now, we’re all paying out of our teeth and our children’s teeth and grandchildren’s teeth. Being born with $40,000 in debt to pay off is a form of slavery, isn’t it?

I have no idea how you came to the conclusion that a libertarian society would lead to feudalism. If you think that our current government places a “high value on individual worth and liberty,” why don’t you just plan your next vacation to the closest foreign island to the United States, Cuba? You’ll quickly realize that your freedom to travel where you like or go where you want in this world has been taken over by someone who thinks they know what’s best for you. That’s just one example.

Libertarianism DOES acknowledge a “fundamental responsibility to the welfare of the group,” but that is done by you not impinging on anyone else’s rights and helping those you wish to help. You’re not forced to “care” about anyone else like you are in the current system. Using other people’s money to give to the homeless does not mean that you care about the homeless, it probably means you care about getting re-elected.

Aren’t there starving and desperate people under our current system, even with all our supposed safeguards in place? Imagine all the money that goes to huge monied interests in our current society. That money would be put back in the hands of the “commoners” under a libertarian society, which would certainly keep people from being “starving and desperate.”

“No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.”

Lincoln referred to in in his inaugural address. It had passed the House and Senate and would have been ratified if the South did not secede. Moreover, some States in the South voted to stay in the Union after the States in the deeper South voted to remain in the Union. Those States seceded after Lincoln’s invasion, believing that such action was a gross violation of the Constitution.

The South seceded because there were being robbed blind by the Northern States use of the tariff. Lincoln even threatened an invasion in his inaugural address if the tariff was not paid:
“In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.”

Lincoln destroyed the Union based on voluntary association and established a State based on conquest and violence. He began an unconstitutional war; he implemented an income tax; instituted a draft; committed war crimes against the Southern people; issued an arrest warrant for the Chief Justice; arrested Northern dissenters and people who criticized him; interfered in elections; engineered the unconstitutional creation of West Virginia; arrested and intimidate justices who issued writs of habeus corpus; and unconstitutionally suspended the writ of habeus corpus. No one who truly loves liberty can look at the actions of this man and not call him a tyrant. He was the progenitor of the Leviathan State we live under and deserves all the opprobrium he receives. It was his war which ended the only checks the people had to fight a growing, oppressive central government: nullifcation and secession. The individual States are now vassals to the Federal Government. Our situation was predicted by all the anti-Federalists and had the Constitution never been ratified, our situation would have been different.

For the record, I am an Black American radical greatly influenced by Thomas Paine, Albert Nock, Frank Chodorov, Murray Rothbard, Robert Higgs, and Hans Hermann Hoppe. I hate the State and hold particular odium for the democratic State. So if you wonder why I approach this subject with the fire that I do, that’s why. I have no tolerance for slavery of any kind, private or public, no matter how well disguised.