[max americana]

I wished the South won.

[yoe]

Union means so many millions a year lost to the South: secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils....The quarrel between the North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.
Charles Dickens, December 1861.

Slavery had always been unpopular....the anti-slavery movement had nothing to do with The War Between The States...that came much later when Lincoln faced a war weary North and needed a better reason to continue his tariff war.

[piasa]

You would not were you born a slave.

[Theophilus]

I wished the South won.

I understand your sentiment. However, and I believe Gen. Jackson, from heaven, would agree with me that what the Northern Aggressors meant for evil, God meant for good and we ought to thank His benevolent Providence that history is precisely the way it is.

[Nifster]

doesn’t deserve a response....

you either think things like the KKK and lynchings and treating people as less than human are a good thing or you are ignorant. Democrats (particularly in the South) are direct descendants of the confederacy. Huey Long, Robert Byrd, Jimmy Carter each and every big government loving rat is a son of dixie. On that basis perhaps they did win after all O is destroying the union

[Jacquerie]

The damage done by the war went far beyond the millions of casualties. It adversely affected the law, and the relationship of Americans to their federal government.

After every war, freedom never quite returns to prewar levels.

The eventually 450 year old Roman Republic made use of dictators to deal with emergencies. Our Framing generation made use of them. It is a pity our constitution did not make provision for the occasional dictator.

Dictators Necessary to Keep Free Republics.

[rockrr]

I thank God it failed.

[SamAdams76]

Me too. Then we might have Waffle Houses north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Right now I have to take I-81 down to Virginia to get my fix of scattered and smothered hash browns and grits. And that ain't right.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well we are probably going to get another go at it real soon. :-)