[DiogenesLamp]

I honestly don't care one way or the other what you believe, but I will point out that my reply was in response to jeffersondem's rather ludicrous suggestion that the whole conflict could have been avoided by amending the Constitution to end slavery.

Never the less it was your honest assessment of the "free will" of the states absent coercion. You voiced it before you realized it supported my point that the 13th and 14th amendments were coerced by Washington DC.

You know very well the Southern states would have never voted for those amendments absent coercion.

[rockrr]

You know very well the Southern states would have never voted for those amendments absent coercion.

If true it doesn't exactly speak all that well of them, does it?

[DoodleDawg]

You know very well the Southern states would have never voted for those amendments absent coercion.

Thus my contention that the idea that the rebellion could have been avoided merely by passing an amendment outlawing slavery was idiotic. As I told jeffersondem.