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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5823657" data-attributes="member: 54707">Personally, I think it was both a series of States Rights/Union issues and a Slavery issue.However, it is simply not possible to have a true and voluntary Union when part of a Union keeps people as chattel, and the other parts disavow themselves of the same.That is simply too large a moral gap to maintain such a Union indefinitely. Eventually such a moral gap will lead to a War, an Insurrection, or a Split.I am a proud Son of the South. Born and raised in the first state to secede. However slavery, like murder, sex slavery, etc. is simply too large a moral gap for me to have crossed. I would not fight a war whose end result would have been to retain men as slaves, no matter whatever other good arguments could have been made in defense of that war. I simply believe as an American and as a Christian that slavery is an immoral act (others at the time may have felt differently, that's their right, but I don't think their rights would have trumped the rights of other men's liberties), and that I could not support it as a principle of either Just War or Basic Law. I feel confident that if I had lived in that era I would still have felt the same way. I would have either moved to Texas to become a Ranger or Frontiersman, or moved northwest and fought for the North. Maybe I would have been a spy, but more likely a guerilla fighter or frontier's scout.But I would not have fought to promote or maintain slavery, and would not have apologized for such an act of treason against my state. An Unjust state is to me a state I feel no loyalty too.To me a state has to meet a certain baseline moral standard for me to feel loyalty to it. So no matter the validity of the other arguments concerning possible war grievances, I personally could not have crossed the slavery divide.</blockquote>

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