so, are you saying that another country bombarding you is only an act of war if more than a mule is killed????
I can never seem to get the point across about the 19th century. It is true even today. Any good southern man just doesn't hate what the federal government has become, the hate is towards the Northern people. The hatred is for their haughty attitude and their deference to the republican form of govt. Belittling states rights, selling their slave to the south for a profit then turning around and condemning the ones the sold them too. In the late 18th century the North didn't free their slaves, THEY SOLD THEM. They adopted mercantilism and slaves were not part of the plan.