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I just dont think we need to apologize to people just cause there black. Most werent even alive during that time. There just riding it out to see what they can get. Oh, they had history class in 7th grade? Man, that all makes sense now. dang.
"Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can may revolutionize and make their own of so many of the territory as they inhabit.
The southern states had every right to secede after being unfairly taxed and due to the growing cultural disparity between the rural south and industrial north. Regardless the north was as bound to slavery as the south, because the cotton picked by slaves was being taken up north to fuel the profitable mills in New England.
