{"id":3893,"date":"2011-05-10T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T18:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2011-05-10T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T20:13:17","slug":"%e2%80%9cnot-a-war-against-the-south%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2011\/05\/10\/%e2%80%9cnot-a-war-against-the-south%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNot a War against the South\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One hundred fifty years ago today <\/a> the New York Times<\/em> argued <\/a>that anyone who described the Civil War as a war \u201cagainst the South\u201d and \u201cSouthern institutions\u201d had made \u201ca great mistake.\u201d The only reason that President Abraham Lincoln had called for 75,000 troops<\/a> after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter<\/a> was to restore the Union. \u201cWhat [northerners] demand of the seceding States is, not that they shall change their domestic institutions, their Constitutions, their policy or their laws, but that they shall return to their allegiance to the Government,\u201d as the New York Times<\/em> explained<\/a>. While soldiers were prepared to \u201cfight to the death against the traitors,\u201d the New York Times<\/em> noted that they \u201chave no lust of conquest…[or] thought of subjugation.\u201d Not only was slavery not an issue, but the\u00a0New York Times<\/em> pointed out that the new southern government \u00a0did not represent a significant change:<\/p>\n

The Constitution of the Federal Government in all its essential features has been adopted as the organic law of the new Confederacy, while the Constitutions of the States themselves remain unchanged. Their relations to the central Government differ in no material respect from their relations to the Government at Washington.<\/p>\n

Yet despite this fact southerners had \u201crush[ed] into rebellion as if the overthrow of government and the initiation of a bloody civil war were no crime.” In addition, the New York Times<\/em> predicted what would happen after the war. While the \u201changing of individual traitors and the scattering of demagogues\u201d might occur, the New York Times<\/em> believed that \u201cthe seceding States\u2026 will come back with all their rights unimpaired, their sovereignties fully guaranteed, and their domestic institutions as subject to their own control as are those of New York to-day.\u201d You can read more about the New York Times<\/em> during this period in Augustus Maverick\u2019s Henry J. Raymond and the New York Press, for Thirty Years<\/a><\/em> (1870) and Francis Brown\u2019s Raymond of the Times<\/em> (1951).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One hundred fifty years ago today the New York Times argued that anyone who described the Civil War as a war \u201cagainst the South\u201d and \u201cSouthern institutions\u201d had made \u201ca great mistake.\u201d The only reason that President Abraham Lincoln had called for 75,000 troops after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter was to restore the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,171],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-historic-periodicals","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}