On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 23:41:46 -0600, Tony Hwang
wrote:

Son of the South wrote:
I'm tired of all those Northerners, lIberals, "proGRESSives", and
pinkos claiming slavery was the reason for the War between the States,
the "Civil War" they call it when there was nothing civil about it.

The reason was States' Rights, for damn sure.

And what was the Right the states had that the Republicans and the
Feds wanted to take away from Southern states? It was the right to
have slaves, of course.

Hmmm. Maybe they have a point.

Slavery was Southern State's right?

It was their legal right until the War between the States. The South
thought it should stay that way. Slavery and opposition to it was the
basis for the formation of the Republican party. It was the issue
Lincoln campaigned on, the issue the South assumed correctly that he
would try to remedy, and the reason they started to secede iirc even
before Lincoln was inaugurated.

Slavery was the states' right they had in mind, if and when they
raised states' right as an issue at the time, and it's the legal
though not moral right that those who currently claim the war was
about states' rights should admit was the particular right at issue.