Good Versus Evil, Justice Versus Tyranny

Among the economies of the north and south arose many conflicts that led to the tension of the Civil War in 1861. In the 1800s, slavery was a major sectional issue. Northerners were strongly opposed to slavery unlike the south's belief that slavery was economically beneficial.

Sumner spoke for five hours over two days. He singled out two Democratic senators as supporters of slavery, Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and Andrew Butler of South Carolina. Andrew Butler was not present that day, but Sumner charged him with taking "a mistress . . . who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean the

The South supported the expansion of slavery into western territories, while the North was opposed to the institution’s westward expansion. (Hedrick, n.d.) Until the 1850s the nation precariously balanced the slavery issue. It wasn’t until after the Mexican American war did slavery end. After the war there were contentious arguments concerning slavery between the North and the South.

The North and South both had opposite opinions about slavery, The South favored slavery because of there agricultural based economy which they needed slaves to attend to their harvests and crops, the North was against slavery because they were an industrialized nation they had no need for slavery. This debate went on and almost resulted

During the mid 1800’s many Americans began to have mix feelings over the issue of slavery. Many northern Americans believed that slavery was morally wrong and that it was an evil. Southerners on the other hand believed it was a good for the economy as well as for commerce. This great split of attitudes between the north and the south eventually led to threat of the civil war.

The practice of favoring proslavery agenda which was common during President Pierce’s time in office, led to aggression within Congress between proslavery and anti-slavery forces. In 1856 Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts anti-slavery Republican senator, gave a scalding speech called Crimes against Kansas. In this speech Sumner, he blamed Steven Douglass and proslavery South Carolinian senator Andrew Butler for “the rape of a virgin territory, compelling it to the hateful embrace of slavery” (Walther 97). Sumner continued to use highly sexualize language when describing the violence in Kansas and degraded Butler for his involvement in the Fugitive slave act, a component in the 1850 Compromise. He stated Butler “touches nothing that he does not disfigure” (Walther 97), a jab at Butler’s facial disfigurement. For Douglass, Sumner called him the “the squire of slavery” (97), insinuating that Douglass’s concerned lied with the Southern Democrats instead of his Northern constitutes. Along with insulting Douglass and Butler’s honor, Sumner insulted the South most prize social and financial institution slavery. Sumner called slavery a “mistress who was ugly and polluted in the eyes of the world” (97).

During the years of 1820-1860, the United States split into Northern and Southern factions. Each side held completely opposing viewpoints on issues affecting the nation. Compromise was made almost impossible by 1860 due to disagreement over states rights. Eventually, a breakdown of trust between both parties on each side that led to a collapse of compromise due to one of an important main issue, slavery. American citizens, despite constant thoughts of compromise, could not resolve their political disputes. Through conflicts towards the issue of slavery to saving the Union itself, their disputes refused any intention of compromise and would eventually lead to the start of the Civil War.

It is obvious then that the people in the North fueled the uprising of slaves against the South, which eventually culminated in Civil war. Civil war was not only a conflict between whites and blacks, it was more power struggled between the modern states of the North and the agrarian states of the South. Since the North believed in the fundamental human rights and wanted slavery to be abolished, they sided with the slaves in their freedom struggle. Moral issues grew after abolitionists preached against slavery.

The Civil War was the bloody climax of the fight over slavery between the North and the South. Three crucial things that led to the Civil War were the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska act, and “Bloody Kansas.”

During the first half of the 19th century, there were a variety of issues that caused social and economic differences between the North and the South. Among the variety were the issues of tariffs, immigration and slavery. All of these differences between the two sides just piled on top of one another to form into a huge conflict to fuel the growing crisis that was already brewing between the North and South.

The biggest disagreement between the north and the south was over states’ rights and slavery. The slavery had stopped completely in the north, but in the south that’s a different story. But when you just use your head and think about when slavery had been here think about how the blacks had worked around getting whipped and then treated like they were animals. Verses when blacks are not slaves, they now can vote and they have some of the same equal rights. Although the blacks may or may not have had the same equal rights they were treated as if they were not a person in the world like the whites were.

The Differences between the North and the South became more and more apparent from 1776, the birth of the American nation, through 1860, the start of the Civil War. It seems that the main differences stemmed from different types of economies in the North and the South. These economic differences then spilled over into conflicting social values and political beliefs. Together, all these differences combined to contribute to the outbreak of the Civil War.

The outburst of the Civil War forever changed the future of the American nation. At first, it began as a fight to protect the Union, not as a struggle to free the slaves. Many citizens from the North and South felt that the conflict would ultimately decide both issues. Slavery was one of the primary issues which physically divided the northern U.S. from the Southern U.S. during the Civil War. Even after the Reconstruction Era it continue to divide the two. The Southern resistance to ending slavery was the main reason as to why the South believed in rejecting outsider ideals and it helped establish the Southern Code of Honor that emphasizes aggression and violence.

On May 22, 1856 pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina wanders into the United States Senate Chambers, in Washington D.C., and beats anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner with a golden topped walking cane. Brooks repeatedly strikes over and over until the cane becomes nothing but a splintered stick. Meanwhile, Sumner lays unconscious and covered in his own blood. This attack occurs because Brooks wants revenge. Earlier that day Sumner presents a speech, during which he criticizes the Southern slave owners for the violence that occurred in Kansas. Also, Sumner charges Brooks’s cousin, Andrew Butler, who is also a South Carolina Senator, as having a lover who seems ugly to most but is always enchanting to him, Slavery.

The differences that were apparent between the North and South divided the regions in the years leading up to the Civil War. During this time Americans started seeing themselves as two different peoples. In the North the abolitionist movement was becoming stronger. Abolitionist’s believed that all slaves should be freed immediately. However, Southern politicians tried to defend slavery by implying that it was God’s work, and anyone who was against slavery was against God. Most Southern whites believed in the superiority of their social class and insisted that the class system relied on having slave labor. Southern politicians tried to protect slavery by having control of the federal government. There was a strong social hierarchy in the South,