Wow! You guys are apparently living in a very unusual section of the time-space continuum. Just go back and check the RECORD. LOL. The Slimes DEMANDED TOTAL WAR in no uncertain terms, by 1859. Ask them! Is that really news to you? They were PISSED at the open, tariff-free Port of New Orleans! (How different they were, 100 years later, when Vietnam rolled around!)
It would appear that y’all are looking at the same source, but seeing different things. Perhaps some need glasses to view it from their section of the continuum.
2harddrive - maybe you could help them by referring to a specific article or editorial from the NYT of 1859 that “demanded total war”? I would think that a useful contribution to the discussion.