[gusopol3]

If you really listened to the man, he backs his points up with logic and reason.

please endeavor to explain the logic and reason behind these comments, remembering that several states had seceded prior to Lincoln's inauguration.

REP. PAUL: Six hundred thousand Americans died in a senseless civil war. No, he shouldn't have gone, gone to war. He did this just to enhance and get rid of the original intent of the republic. I mean, it was the--that iron, iron fist.. Slavery was phased out in every other country of the world. And the way I'm advising that it should have been done is do like the British empire did. You, you buy the slaves and release them. How much would that cost compared to killing 600,000 Americans and where it lingered for 100 years? I mean, the hatred and all that existed. So every other major country in the world got rid of slavery without a civil war. I mean, that doesn't sound too radical to me. That sounds like a pretty reasonable approach.

[Bastiat_Fan]

What did we gain out of the Civil War, aside from a stronger and more intrusive federal government? Nothing. Slavery could have been ended just like Paul said, buy the slaves and free them. No matter the cost, it would have been cheaper than 600,000 dead Americans. The Civil War was about power, nothing more. All it did was set us further down along the road to an all powerful intrusive state.

The costs of the Civil War were absolutely horrendous, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the complete destruction of the southern states, and the hundreds of thousands dead. All for what? A more powerful federal government? Yippee.

I got a little off topic there, but this quote sounds perfectly reasonable to me

So every other major country in the world got rid of slavery without a civil war. I mean, that doesn't sound too radical to me. That sounds like a pretty reasonable approach.

If everyone else in the civilized world could figure out how to do it without bloodshed, why did we waste 600k lives on fighting the Civil War?

[Bastiat_Fan]

What did we gain out of the Civil War, aside from a stronger and more intrusive federal government? Nothing. Slavery could have been ended just like Paul said, buy the slaves and free them. No matter the cost, it would have been cheaper than 600,000 dead Americans. The Civil War was about power, nothing more. All it did was set us further down along the road to an all powerful intrusive state.

The costs of the Civil War were absolutely horrendous, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the complete destruction of the southern states, and the hundreds of thousands dead. All for what? A more powerful federal government? Yippee.

I got a little off topic there, but this quote sounds perfectly reasonable to me

So every other major country in the world got rid of slavery without a civil war. I mean, that doesn't sound too radical to me. That sounds like a pretty reasonable approach.

If everyone else in the civilized world could figure out how to do it without bloodshed, why did we waste 600k lives on fighting the Civil War?