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they asked the union troops to leave and they refused.
but the southern states did not impose a war on the federal government because they had no intention over throwing the federal government, that wanted to go their own way.
Some of the things the southern states wanted to take with them did not belong to them.
Perhaps that is why they have those civil war reenactments. As far as I know people in other countries don't have reenactments of getting their asses kicked.I could be wrong.Maybe the British reenact the American colonist kicking their ass.Correct.
But there are some people who would like to get a rematch. I don't believe that's going to happen.
The South will not rise again.
Perhaps that is why they have those civil war reenactments. As far as I know people in other countries don't have reenactments of getting their asses kicked.I could be wrong.Maybe the British reenact the American colonist kicking their ass.
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the southern states declared their separation from the union, they created their own government and constitution, and no longer participated in the the union for 5 years.
again FORMER..
these acts you have posted were made by the federal government whom the southern states were fighting.
to levy a war, means to impose a war, the southern states left the union, with only the intention of going their own way.
If by "going their own way" you mean 'to expand slavery into the new territories' then you'd be right. That was the build up to the Civil War.
Lincoln considered the southern states as "loyal states that were "subverted" by traitors.".....
"...Whereas, a rebellion now exists whereby the loyal state governments of several states have for a long time been subverted, and many persons have committed, and are now guilty of, treason against the United States; and.....<snip>
"...And still further, that this proclamation is intended to present the people of the states wherein the national authority has been suspended, and loyal state governments have been subverted, a mode in and by which the national authority and loyal state governments may be reëstablished within said states, or in any of them; and while the mode presented is the best the Executive can suggest, with his present impressions, it must not be understood that no other possible mode would be acceptable....."
Neither Lincoln or the US government recognized the South's "so-called confederate government" and they always referred to it as a 'rebellion' or 'treason' but never a war. They were very careful not give the South's "so called secession" any legitimacy......
"....And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one tenth in number of the votes cast in such state at the presidential election of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, each having taken the oath aforesaid, and not having since violated it, and being a qualified voter by the election law of the state existing immediately before the so-called act of secession, and excluding all others, shall reestablish a state government which shall be republican, and in nowise contravening said oath, such shall be recognized as the true government of the state, and the state shall receive thereunder the benefits of the constitutional provision which declares that “the United States shall guaranty to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or the executive, (when the legislature cannot be convened,) against domestic violence......”
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863
The federal government won the war that rendered the South's seccession as null and void.
you have already posted "reinstated".......to be reinstated, it had to be out of the position it was in...... to be reinstated.
the south did what the founders had done, and even more, because the decision to leave the union was put before the people, and the people have a right to alter or abolish their government.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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