[Defiant]

I read today's email, and added them to my spam filter. I won't read another of their posts. It was unbelievable. Apologizing for slavery. Claimed that there was a strong argument that the north and the south would have reunited at some point. Not likely. More likely, we'd have had some more bloody fratricidal wars over the past 150 years, fighting over who was going to control the continent. Instead of American hegemony over the globe, we'd have a divided continent and no one would have been there to defeat fascism, communism and now, the islamofascists.

I don't know if it's God's will or not, but it has been very fortuitous that a unified, Christian land controlled the continent of North America, secure from any European power and able to defeat any empire that sought to control the world.

[Ditto]

Claimed that there was a strong argument that the north and the south would have reunited at some point. Not likely. More likely, we'd have had some more bloody fratricidal wars over the past 150 years, fighting over who was going to control the continent.

Correct. We would have been no different than the Balkans if not for Lincoln. An independent South, with it's slave population doubling every 20 years and offering little attraction for white immigrants or even in retaining the yeomen class would have been forced to expand to diffuse there slave "property" over a wider market area or face the certain collapse of the "peculiar institution" and the likelihood of death at the hands of their slaves who would have vastly outnumbered them.

The very root of the conflict stretching back to the founding was over expansion of slavery to the west. Southern independence would not have changed the fundamental economic fact that slavery had to either continually expand or face complete ruin. It was the ugliest of Ponzi schemes.