[lentulusgracchus]

My only regret about the Civil War outcome is the gradual loss of the 10th Amendment - which has allowed the government to grow unchecked ever since the Civil War.

That's a big part of the reason -- the bulk of it, imho -- for the war in the first place.

Whiggery won the contest for the country's agenda, at a cost of a million lives.

Nobody else fought a civil war "to end slavery". Another clue that it wasn't about the slaves, or slavery. It was about wrecking the South to move them out of the way.

When Southerners gave teeth to Manifest Destiny, they went to war with Mexico. The Northerners objected to that war, but they had no problem making war on the South for their own manifest destiny, which was to grab control of the empire that Presidents Jackson and Polk had created.

Anyone who wants to say I'm wrong, needs to explain all those fine Victorian townhouses and apartment buildings around Central Park and up and down Park Avenue and the Chicago Loop. People died, so the Four Hundred could live like gods. So did the Founders' republic.

[Non-Sequitur]

Nobody else fought a civil war "to end slavery".

Nobody but the South launched a civil war to protect slavery.

Anyone who wants to say I'm wrong, needs to explain all those fine Victorian townhouses and apartment buildings around Central Park and up and down Park Avenue and the Chicago Loop.

I'm from Chicago. The Loop is a business district. No townhouses.