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  2. Cornerstone Speech - Wikipedia

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    The improvised speech, delivered a few weeks before the Civil War began, defended slavery as a fundamental and just result of the supposed inferiority of the black race, explained the fundamental differences between the constitutions of the Confederate States and that of the United States, enumerated contrasts between Union and Confederate ...

  3. Constitution of the Confederate States - Wikipedia

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    The Preamble to the Confederate Constitution: "We, the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity – invoking the favor and ...

  4. Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in the territories: Lincoln asserted that nothing in the Constitution expressly said what either could or could not be done regarding slavery in the territories. He indicated his willingness to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act , so long as free blacks could be protected from being kidnapped and illegally sold into slavery through its misuse.

  5. Slavery and States' Rights - Wikipedia

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    Slavery and States' Rights" was a speech given by former Confederate States Army general Joseph Wheeler on July 31, 1894. The speech deals with the American Civil War and is considered to be a " Lost Cause " view of the war's causation.

  6. 160 years later, Confederate constitution an ignoble relic - AOL

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    The Confederate Constitution is a forgotten relic of an ignoble cause that remains contentious generations after the Civil War ended, yet few people even know of its existence or final resting place.

  7. When did Kentucky actually abolish slavery? A lot later than ...

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    April 12, 1861: The American Civil War begin after Confederate troops fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston ... 1865: National ratification of 13th Amendment, which ends slavery in the United States ...

  8. Alexander H. Stephens - Wikipedia

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    The new [Confederate] 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.

  9. Nikki Haley, asked what caused the Civil War, leaves out ...

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    After Haley went into a lengthier explanation about the role of government, individual freedom and capitalism, the questioner seemed to […] The post Nikki Haley, asked what caused the Civil War ...