The War for Southern Independence: My Myth or Yours?

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If I had to make one thing the cause of the war it would not be slavery. It would be this aggressive attitude on the part of the North.   One Confederate wag observed that the war happened because Southerners were a contented people and Yankees were not.   Southerners did not regard the Union as a weapon. They knew perfectly well that their fathers and grandfathers had created a confederation that was to be to the mutual benefit and protection of its members. They had agreed to no such an arrangement in which they would be merely instruments of others' purposes and have their society altered at others' will. When it was clear that the purpose of the Union was to be perpetually perverted, secession was a logical remedy. All this Southern statesman pointed out all along.
-Dr. Clyde Wilson

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http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/the-war-for-southern-independence-my-myth-or-yours/