[muawiyah]

Conservatives of “our kind” were not thrown in the shredder. Slavers and their enablers were tossed, but they started the conflict. They fired the first shots. TS

[imjimbo]

Wrong AGAIN-! Lincoln provoked the south by resupplying a military base in their sovereign territory. Go back and bone up on your history before proving yourself a fool AGAIN-!

[lentulusgracchus]

Slavers and their enablers were tossed, but they started the conflict. They fired the first shots.

As a matter of fact and logic, "started the conflict" and "fired the first shots" are two separate concepts, two separate realities, and both statements are incorrect.

The Civil War was a war of Northern aggression, from the propaganda war and hate-campaign of the 1830's and 1840's to Bleeding Kansas to Harper's Ferry to Appomattox, until 1866 when Congress declared the war over.

It was a war of Northern merchant interests against their unwilling chumps and ratepayers. Hamilton's Downtown Boys against the rest of the country.