[jeffersondem]

“A war started by Southern plutocrats and slave holders bent on maintaining an economic system based on the use of slave labor.”

That is an interesting comment and prompts me to ask: does a country that allows legal slavery disqualify itself from the right of self-government. Would people who make up such a country be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

I’m asking you this in the context of 6,000 years of human history. When answering, just use your own words.

[jmacusa]

Listen smart ass, those are my words. And your attempts at moral and historical relevance further makes your arguments insulting. The North ended slavery long before the South. The choose secession to maintain it. Let's stick to the subject at hand. The Civil War in America, 1861-65 and the reasons why the Confederacy started it. it.

[jmacusa]

correction: “relativism’’.