I see FLT-bird has the same disease which often grips DiogenesLamp -- having posted endless nonsense in very long pieces, you suddenly don't want to be bothered with acknowledging my slow & careful responses.
Typical.
FLT-bird: "He’s still replying to posts he’s already replied to a week or more ago."
No, no duplicate responses, though sometimes your very lengthy posts resulted in a need to break up my response into more than one shorter post.
So if it seems like I've posted the same response multiple times, it's only because you first posted the same nonsense multiple times.
FLT-bird: "The case stands.
Those at the time on all sides openly said it was in essence, a fiscal quarrel as Charles Dickens described it.
It was all about money and empire - like most wars throughout history."
Sure, nobody disputes that some people claimed it was not about "slavery, slavery, slavery" but rather about "money, money, money", of course they did, including some Brits who hated Northerners, like your Charles Dickens.
But that's not what secessionists said in late 1860 and early 1861.
See my post #649 for a review of the "Reasons for secession" documents.
Nor did Lincoln ever say "money, money, money".
Lincoln gave three reasons for military actions:
"Basically the”press” has given up its informing role. It’s real self is now the petulant toy of short rich men. The woman who chaired this organization is a servant of Bloomberg, the gun hating dwarf who owns Bloomberg news( On air his slaves have been ordered to refer to him only as “The Founder”). He is worth 50 billion. He dispises DT because The best he could do with his own 70 million spent was become mayor. The WaPo, which is the home town paper for this turd festival, is owned by the Emperor himself. It is the number one hater of DT, by design. Servants must please their masters or become vapor. The media now is just a faction of these rich guys doing what they want. Only the wall and a cigarette will ever alter this reality."