The Importance Of Banning The Confederate Flag

Lincoln’s and Douglass’s views differed from Davis’s because they did not consider the slaves as a chattel. Lincoln declared slavery illegal in the Confederate States in the famous Emancipation Proclamation. There is a famous quote form Douglass: where justice is denied and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Also, their views differed from Lydia Maria Child’s. Lincoln and Douglass believed the Constitution should be a protection against, rather than a sanction for slavery.

Only under certain conditions were Southern states allowed to enter the Union, and once again become a nation. Ten percent of southern voters must swear loyalty to the Union, they could readmit. Once the voters sore, then called the state draft a new state

The northerner had been a loud voice against the slavery that took place (mostly) in the south and with him winning the election, there was a lot of opposition from slavery-advocates. Lincoln was against slavery and with the possibility of his end-goal being the abolishment of slavery seven states where already done leaving the union before Lincoln had taken his place in the Oval Office. The Confederate states of America had been formed and it was composed of the pro-slavery states in the south. However, even though people in the north believed that the

This document written by the government of South Carolina is justifying their succession from the Union. Their reasoning was that the northern states have denied the rights of property which were established in the United States Constitution. The government of South Carolina viewed Lincoln as a threat to slavery, this is evident when they said “ … All the states north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.” (Doc 7). This also shows extremism as South Carolina did secede from the union, justifying it.

This was a battle of north and south; Confederate vs Union. The Union had been led by George G. Meade they had wanted to defend slavery and not let it be abolished. According to “American Vision” textbook. However the confederates were led by Robert E. Lee in which they wanted to abolish slavery. The battle had an estimated amount of 51,112 casualties in the war through the 3 days the battle took place.

In the news today, a continual debate can be found about the significance of Confederate monuments and if they should remain or be removed. Confederate monuments that have been erected throughout the U.S. should be kept because of the preservation of America’s history. For instance, in the article, The Unbearable Lightness of Confederate-Statue Removal, the author lists how slaveholder monuments aren’t the only statues being vandalized, but the Lincoln Memorial and Mount Rushmore are other symbols of U.S. history that some believe need to “blow up” (Murdock). Every historical symbol can have both people who appreciate it and who oppose it. That doesn’t mean that we should tear down all symbols, but

Decisions made in the 1850s ultimately decided the United States fate. From the election of 1856 to the Dred Scott case, the nation would become divided into two. The South was pro-slavery and supported the idea of slavery expanded into western territories, while the North opposed of the idea and was mainly against expanding slavery. Until the 1850s the nation barely balanced the slavery issue.

The history of the Confederate Flag goes back to March 4 1861. It was used in the Civil War to separate the Union and the Confederate soldiers. This early version of the flag was created by William Thompson. The Confederate Flag was never meant to be a racist symbol, but people today think of it that way when they see it because the probably don't understand the meaning behind it. I believe that the flag is not a racist symbol, some of the ways people who used it may have been racist such a the KKK which started December 24, 1865, the KKK also used the cross and the american flag in their practices.

Thus, as soon as Abraham Lincoln was elected President, word spread in the South that Lincoln was going to use powers from the federal government to put a legal end to slavery. Thus, the Northerners would be overpowering the Southerners, who apparently, would have no more voice anymore in this debate--thus, they would not have the incommensurate influence they once had. One of the immediate causes of the Civil War was when seven Southern states (South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas) declared secession, thus formally removing themselves from being part of the United States; they elected Jefferson Davis as their president, and all this took place before Lincoln became president and could do anything about the matter. Another one of the causes of the Civil War was the reaction from the decision of the Dred Scott case, which stated that African-Americans, whether they were slaves or free, did not have the ability to become American citizens, and thus did not have the same rights as the American citizen (such as the right to sue in federal court). Also, Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney declared that states did not have the right to prevent a slaveholder from residing within a free state and practicing slavery there, practically allowing for slavery to take place across

On November 16, 1860, an election was held between Abraham Lincoln, who was a republican, against John Cabell Breckinridge and John C. Bell, who were federalists. The federalists believed that Lincoln brought chaos to the United States; and the republicans disagreed with the centralization of power in the Southern states. So the result ended up with the triumph of Lincoln. As a result, the Southerners formed the Confederate states of America; and elected Jefferson Davis as the president. The Confederate states also issued their own Constitution, which was basically based on the United States Constitution, except the Southern Constitution defended slavery.

In the Declaration of Independence, it states that if a government becomes destructive, the people have the right to abolish or create a new government altogether. According to this Document F, the Southern states were doing something that is allowed under the Declaration of Independence, “...that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government…” (Document F). The Southern states did not think that the government was serving them properly. All of the states that seceded from the union knew if the U.S. government wasn’t going to serve them properly, why live in bias of Lincoln who was going to abolish their number one source of making income, slaves making cotton.

Therefore the Southern states should have been allowed to secede from the union as the government of the Union did not protect some of their given rights. First of all, the Southern states had the right to secede because the North had too much power over them. “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” (Document I). Based on this quote, the Northern states started to believe in the abolitionist movement too much; so much that they started to consider the slave states as their enemies. As shown in the quote “By consolidating their strength, they have placed the slave-holding states

Abraham Lincoln once said, “ No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy.” In the text, it states that the decision to secede was favored by 11 southern states. Those states included South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. These states’ favored the decision to secede for numerous of reasons.

Abraham Lincoln represented the North and Hannibal Hamlin represented the South. “Free Speech/Free Territories/Protect American Industry” (Doc 4). The North wanted free territories to not have slavery and didn’t believe in States’ Rights and cared more about their factories. The South wanted free territories to become slave states and believed in States’ Rights. One of the many rationales for the South leaving is because of their discrepancies in politics.

In fact, his state in him inaugural address that he had to real interest in abolishing slavery, in an attempt to reassure Southerners. Prior to his election, Lincoln took a very similar position when he ran for the US Senate. In his acceptance speech he stated "I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free." He then went on to say that "slavery in the United States would eventually have to end everywhere or become legal everywhere in order for the nation to survive." Although Lincoln was not the kind of man to condone or approve of slavery, he did not take a stance against