I find it a little difficult to believe that northern men left their Homes, Jobs, Farms, Wives and Children, to go down and march a thousand miles on foot to kill their fellow countrymen and relatives because they had slaves.
That was then - this is now of course. Sending the military is one thing, but even for today’s standards - how many people on your block could you get to do that today? ( And Risk their lives )
I believe Beck set that guy up with that question.
That’s an excellent point. Keep in mind, the majority of Southerners were not slaveowners and just as I’d find it hard to believe Northerners would leave home and risk death and disease to kill someone over slavery, I can’t see many poor sharecroppers leaving their homes and their children and wives to go fight to protect some rich guy’s plantation of slaves.