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To: gorush

Not so. The South had the cancer of slavery eating at its belly. The whole mountain region was supporting the North. A lot of southerners didn’t want to die for a bunch of rich landowners who sent slaves instead of sons. Choosing Richmond for the capital was a big mistake.

The North’s manufacturing capacity spelled doom for the Confederacy.


16 posted on 01/19/2011 4:34:39 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

Possibly, but at that point in the war the North was losing and demoralized. A loss at Gettysburg may have pushed public sentiment over the edge in the North. Slavery was going to end soon, anyway, IMHO, but the state’s rights argument was lost forever.


20 posted on 01/19/2011 4:39:10 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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