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"When the only tool you've got is a hammer, all your problems start to look like nails."

You keep trying to shoehorn "slavery" into every decision made in that era because that suits what you want to believe.

Everybody was talking about slavery in the 1860s. It's you who are trying to "shoehorn" your obsession with the evil Yankees into every discussion.

You claim to be a cynic, but you fall for every stupid line of slaveowner propaganda.

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Everybody was talking about slavery in the 1860s.

So we are constantly told. I know the people who were trying to gain power from using it as a tool, talked about it constantly.

Remember the liberals talking about "children in cages."

Same kind of phenomena.

You claim to be a cynic, but you fall for every stupid line of slaveowner propaganda.

The economic numbers are more persuasive to me than anything either side says on the matter.

Money talks. Bullsh*t walks.