To: arrogantsob
"If Lee had accepted Lincolns appointment to lead the Unions armies the War probably would not have lasted a year."
And the slaves would not have been freed.
25 posted on
07/14/2018 5:42:22 PM PDT by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: fella
It would have taken longer to free the slaves no doubt but it would have eventually happened. A pre-feudal economic system in a industrializing world is doomed.
31 posted on
07/14/2018 10:42:45 PM PDT by
arrogantsob
(See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
To: fella
I disagree. When the south made war on the north in their misguided quest to preserve their Peculiar Institution, they cast the die that became an inevitability.
49 posted on
07/15/2018 2:38:22 PM PDT by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
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