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To: Kaslin
If there was no room to compromise over slavery before the war... there was still no Constitutional justification for waging brutal war against the States which chose to leave the Union.
3 posted on 11/30/2012 12:20:16 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

That seems to be lost on some. The North did not invade the South to free the slaves. It invaded to prevent secession—and that’s economics, not morality.


11 posted on 11/30/2012 12:54:02 PM PST by SC_Pete
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