The New Intolerance--Hatred Of The South Is Hatred Of America

At the firing on Fort Sumter, April 12-13, 1865, the first shots of the Civil War, Virginia was still inside the Union. Indeed, there were more slave states in the Union than in the Confederacy. But, on April 15, Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers from the state militias to march south and crush the new Confederacy.

Two days later, April 17, Virginia seceded rather than provide soldiers or militia to participate in a war on their brethren. North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas followed Virginia out over the same issue. They would not be a party to a war on their kinfolk.

 

Slavery was not the cause of this war. Secession was—that and Lincoln's determination to drown the nation in blood if necessary to make the Union whole again. 

If history is a reliable indicator, States which dare to assert their Tenth Amendment rights will incur the full wrath and fury of the federal government.