[muawiyah]

There's always someone around who is more than willing to use extraneous incidentals to justify the continuation of slavery and the abuses surrounding that practice.

There'd be a lot less of that these days if they'd gotten rid of the Democrat party.

BTW, President Buchanan shows up as the worst President in American history because he was in charge as the nation drifted ever close to war.

BTW, one of the reasons the North could successfully prosecute the war was a massive recession throughout the Ohio Valley/Midwest states ~ those "merchants" you point to were OUT OF BUSINESS as were their customers. They had plenty of time to go shoot Souvrn'rs. Besides, they despised slavery.

[lentulusgracchus]

There's always someone around who is more than willing to use extraneous incidentals to justify the continuation of slavery and the abuses surrounding that practice.

There's always someone around who is more than willing to raise the propaganda cry, "It was all about slavery!"

Why don't you go commune with Clintonista professors McPherson and Foner? I'm sure they'll have lots of amusing stories about how rotten Southerners are. Maybe Slick Hisself will drop by and regale you with some of his cornpone "Ah know those boys! Ah grew up down there!" Yeah, right. Spent all his time in the bathroom, and knows all about the South.