[Non-Sequitur]

Thanks for the posts, Non-Sequitur, but I'm afraid most of your quotes in the post above cite multiple or other reasons for the dissolution of the Union, than your favored liberal theory that the South did everything, and everything the South did, was always about Negro captivity, or slavery, or hanging Negroes, or hanging Negroes and setting them on fire.

For example?

[lentulusgracchus]

For example?

Sorry, N-S, but I won't accept a homework assignment of digging through your post. A fair reading of your posted quotations from Southern secessionist orators supports multiple motives, rather than McPherson's "it was slavery and nothing but slavery" mantra, which is a polemical lie -- polemical, in that McPherson is attempting to attach a moral stigma to every Southern leader and soldier, and by extension -- more importantly -- to every Southerner now living, who has not slavishly grasped the knees and kissed the ring of the triumphalist faction and the Power they serve.