Why Didn Texas Divide Into Five States to Keep Southern Power in the Senate?
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels The Civil War in the U.S.. From their writings in the Vienna Presse and the New York Daily Tribune and from their correspondence to one another, 1861 and 1862. Copyright 1937, 1961, International Publishers Inc. NY. The socialist leaders were in England, but they opposed the U.S. Civil War, sided with the North, and actively worked to keep England from joining the Southern side. Labor in both the North and the South opposed the war. Marx had this to say specifically about Texas on page 78: “Even the actual slave states, however much external war, internal military dictatorship and slavery give them everywhere the semblance of harmony, are nevertheless not without resistant elements. A striking example is Texas, with 180,388 slaves out of 601,039 inhabitants. The law of 1845, by virtue of which Texas entered the ranks of the United states as a slave state, entitled it to form not merely one, but five states out of its territory. The South would thereby hav
