VP of Confederacy said that secession was about slavery. Not states-rights.

[DetlefK]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech

The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution 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. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away... Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it—when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell."

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Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone 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. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science.



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Psht. What would he know about the Confederacy.

[DK504]

1. There you go with that truthiness again.

If you read this to a group of these Nazis and KKKers they would have a blank stare on their faces, they wouldn't understand so many words put together in full sentences.

[Wounded Bear]

2. There are any number of sources that verify that...

including most of the state constitutions adopted after initial secession.

[Squinch]

3. How this is still a discussion is beyond me. You and countless others have pointed this out,

and yet they persist in their lies.

They are just disgusting.

[Moostache]

4. There you go again...using quotes and facts

To people who think whites and X-tins are persecuted in the modern world, those things do not register.

I hate this whole "alternative facts" / "fake news" bulls hit to my very soul...it offends my base humanity.

[ExciteBike66]

5. I like to reply to right-wingers that they are right, it was about state's rights..

It was about the right of a state to allow one man to own another.