[PeaRidge]

Thanks for that research. However it appears it is modern historians that are being quoted, and not people of the time.

But all of that information became irrelevant as of Feb. 2, 1861. The Northern states no longer had a problem with slavery.

[rockrr]

You didn't look very closely or you choose to see only what you wish to see.

Northern states no longer had a problem with slavery.

Even novice lost causers do not believe that to be true.