[capitan_refugio]

What was the "act of war"? How was an American warship entering an American port, held by rebels, an "act of war"? That they made the attempt with subterfuge only underscores the gravity of the situation. I think you may be working under the misconception that secession was actually legal and the Confederate States of America were actually a country, rather than a criminal enterprise based on the evil proposition that slavery was something to be perpetuated.

[Grand Old Partisan]

"a criminal enterprise based on the evil proposition that slavery was something to be perpetuated"

The Confederacy was a scam concocted by southern Democrat elites to maintain their subjugation of blacks and poor whites.

[nolu chan]

I think you may be assuming that secession was unlawful in 1861.

When the British ships of war came in during the Revolutionary War and their army marched about, were those acts of war? Or were they putting down a civil disturbance?

We don't call it the American Civil Disturbance, nor the Civil Disturbance Between the States.

[stand watie]

you win the PINK POPCICLE AWARD for today for the most STUPID post.

in 1860, you' couldn't have found 10,000 people in the WHOLE country who cared a damn about the plight of the slaves. (nobody, of course, asked the slaves!) almost NOBODY was willing to fight a war about it either.

it's just a self-serving damnyankee LIE. nothing more;nothing less.

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