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If it were not for partial quotes you sothron types would have no quotes at all.

"To you, generous, noble-minded men and women, of the South, -- you, whose virtue, and magnanimity and purity of character, are the greater for the severer trial it has encountered, -- to you is her appeal. Have you not, in your own secret souls, in your own private conversings, felt that there are woes and evils, in this accursed system, far beyond what are here shadowed, or can be shadowed?"

And the answer was, of course, no. The vast, overwhelming majority of southerners saw nothing wrong with slavery. At best they saw it as a necessary evil. At worst their views were the same as Jefferson Davis' who said, "We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Law in nature tells us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude. Freedom only injures the slave. The innate stamp of inferiority is beyond the reach of change. You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables him to be."

Slavery made the south what is was. Slavery was an institution that almost all southerners felt would be passed on to their children and their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Slavery was so important to the south that it was worth beginning a rebellion over, worth starting a war over. The believed in it, prospered from it, and their answer to Ms. Stowe would have been a resounding "Hell, no!"

She can answer your inquiry.

"Do you say that the people of the free states have nothing to do with it? The people of the free states have defended, encouraged, and participated; and are more guilty for it, before God, than the South.

"There are multitudes of slaves temporarily owned, and sold again, by merchants in Northern cities; and shall the whole guilt or obloquy of slavery fall only on the South?

"Northern men, Northern mothers, Northern Christians, have something more to do than denounce their brethren at the South; they have to look to the evil among themselves."

Harriette Beecher Stowe

Slavery made the south what is was. Slavery was an institution that almost all southerners felt would be passed on to their children and their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Slavery was so important to the south that it was worth beginning a rebellion over, worth starting a war over. The believed in it, prospered from it, and their answer to Ms. Stowe would have been a resounding "Hell, no!"

Actually, over 90% of southerners did not own slaves. The main reason for the fight was the fact that the federal government was trampling on states rights. (Gosh, that sounds like a conservative position!! Horror!!!!)

disclaimer:I am not now, nor have I ever advocated slavery, nor am I attempting to defend a despicable and incredibly monstorous practice

I am merely pointing out that the Civil War was not ONLY about slavery.

Slavery made the south what is was. Slavery was an institution that almost all southerners felt would be passed on to their children and their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Why do you post statements like that when you know damn well there is no truth in them?