Marching Into Massacre Research Paper

Marching Into Massacre

The shots of guns ringing in the air, men falling at every turn, masses of blood flinging everywhere as shouts start to seize, why the violence? In February of 1861, Texas was the seventh state to secede from the Union, two months later a bloody battle was engaged between the Union, the North, and those who seceded, the Confederacy. After all Texas has been through to receive independence and gain an annexation to the United States, why have they entered another war? Texas enlisted into the Civil War believing they had the right to make their own decisions on states’ rights. Texas considered blacks as a lower being, and thought the African Americans should be used to their benefit as slaves. All Texans wanted to protect their land, their state, property, and family. Texas wanted the right to be able to express their opinions and create their own laws. Texans disliked the laws put out by the Union, wished to revise them or to withdraw. All the response Texans received from the union were that it was unlawful. “I hold that… the Union of these States is perpetual….(N)o state upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the
Texas, whether it was being in the south or not, was in favor of using slaves. Texans believed they had a higher standing than the African Americans and should be used for their prosperity. After all, God was favoring whites, right? “That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race… is mutually beneficial to both bond(slave) and free, and is… justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator.”(B). All white men were entitled to equal rights, but African Americans “mutually” received that right only because the white claimed the Lord favored them, that didn’t make sense to me because we were all