Monograph Essay on the Apostles of Disunion

APOSTLES OF DISUNION- MONOGRAPHY ESSAY
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APOSTLES OF DISUNION- MONOGRAPHY ESSAY
After Abraham Lincoln became the president, the southern states were full of fear as they thought Lincoln would end slavery and would no longer have a voice in the government (Douglass & Barnes, 2013). The states demanded equal opportunities, similar to freed states. Lincoln succeeded the president's seat without a single help from the southern states (Dew, 2017), and therefore, they feared that he would not protect their right equally. From late 1860 to early 1861, the confederate states had commissioners who moved across the southern region with an emotional message mobilizing the black people of a clear goal to the nation's political system (Dew, 2017). For instance, they created awareness among the southerners to induce the political system and citizenry about the uncertain slave regions joining the movement to destroy the union. According to Douglass & Barnes (2013), commissioners aspired at forging a new Southern nation that only belonged to the minority groups. On the contrary, Charles B. Dew posits that slavery was not the primary cause for the secession of the Southern, but it was a stark white ideology supremacist that fueled most of the southerners.
According to Locke & Wright (2019), Alexander H. Stephens explains that the ideology of confederates enlightening the truth of the Negro is not equivalent to the white man. The ideology of disputes that led to the secession of confederate states was the slavery and subordination of the superior race. Douglass & Barnes (2013) states that the Northerners referred to the southerners as traitors after forming the first provisional Confederate government. The confederate states had principles that governed them to triumph over the Northerners that were fair and simple (Douglass & Barnes, 2013). The states had a massive role in defending their land from invasion by the Northerners. Second, the confederates should prevent the Northerners from destroying the Southerners' army. The army had to keep the southern society safe from enemies threatening their well-being. Lastly, the confederate set the principle of breaking the union's will to fight for the violation ...