[Dead Dog]

No, I'm saying the culture that stoked the draft riots is no less racist then the Antabellum south. The north has no moral highground. The ONLY reason they were predominently more abololitionist was that the industry could get uneducatred and starving immigrents cheaper to work factories then they could buy slaves.

Irish people dodging the draft because they perceived the Civil War to be about "helping n-ggers."

That's my point

I'm also saying the Southern States didn't attempt to split in order to save slavery, they did it to protect their trade from tarifs only favorable to the overrepresented North. The Union recruited under the banner of the Abolutionists, but it was simply about tax policy.

[JohnGalt]

Northern Copperhead Abolitionist, here, but I hate seeing people write about my ancestors that way.

The Irish simply did not want to die needlessly when some West Point WASP told them to make suicidal attacks against their cousins from the homeland, entrenched in fortified positions.

[presidio9]

The Union recruited under the banner of the Abolutionists, but it was simply about tax policy.

...and "WHERE ARE THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION MR PRESIDENT," right? Even if I stipulate that the Civil War was not solely about ending slavery, it does not change the fact that ending slavery alone made it a net positive.