[BroJoeK]

desertfreedom76: "But after Harper’s Ferry the South was determined on War.
At that point it wasn’t just about slavery, but John Brown was trying to cause a slave revolt and get a lot of people killed."

Sure, and I might have some sympathy for that point of view, except that John Brown was defeated and captured -- by US Army Colonel Robert E Lee, no less -- then tried and hanged for treason, a fate that Confederate General Lee himself notably did not suffer.

Point is: in 1859 from a Southern perspective justice was done by the Federal Government, and there had been no slave revolt.

So how does that become justification for secession?

[desertfreedom765]

“So how does that become justification for secession?”

From my point of view it doesn’t.

But I do understand human nature.

Dred Scott enraged the North and Harper’s Ferry enraged the South. They were the final straws so to speak.

I was just pointing out the Truth.