[Non-Sequitur]

Slavery vs. wages.

Come again?

...but nowhere do I get that the war was over the moral issue of slavery.

It wasn't, for the Union. But there can be no doubt at all that the primary motivator for the southern secession was to protect slavery. As to why they felt a war was necessary to do it, well, that was definitely a mistake on their part.

[groanup]

there can be no doubt at all that the primary motivator for the southern secession was to protect slavery

Again, I ask, why? Slavery was already protected. My comment about slavery vs. wages is in regard to the obtaining of labor. Industrial North vs. Agricultural South. Wages vs. slavery. How can you comment that the South insisted on war? Lincoln also insisted on war to preserve the union. We can open up a new debate about the first shot on an illegal garrison in a foreign sovereign but we've been down that road.

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As to why they felt a war was necessary to do it, well, that was definitely a mistake on their part.

They didn't think a war was necessary. The North could have just let the south go. Many northerners advocated just letting them go.

[stand watie]

WRONG on this, as on MOST issues. but then EVERYONE knows you're ONLY a propagandist for the unionist cause.

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