[rmvh]

Re your # 263... I had stated :"Taxes, tarrifs, States rights, abolitionism, and Northern vs southern economic issues all contributed.....(to the war).

Yor reply: The record simply doesn't support that.

You are saying, for example, that the struggle over "states rights" had little to do with the civil war?.....

Well, OK,... have a nice day.

[WhiskeyPapa]

You are saying, for example, that the struggle over "states rights" had little to do with the civil war?.....

The only state's right at issue was slavery.

Although the northern states were a little torqued off over the Fugitive Slave Act, which made a mockery of states' rights.

Walt