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To: paladin1_dcs
So if the war was just about slavery, why did the North wait until after Gettysburg to free the slaves, and then only the slaves in the South? Could it be that there was more to the CW than slavery?

From the Northern viewpoint, yes. But from the Southern viewpoint, no. Their rebellion was motivated by their perceived need to protect their institution of slavery from what they saw as the threat of a Republican administration.

102 posted on 12/03/2010 10:38:34 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

You’re late.


106 posted on 12/03/2010 10:42:40 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

You speak as if the Southern legislatures were answering only to themselves instead of their represented populations. Those populations which, I might add, had nothing to gain or lose either way if slavery fell but had everything to gain or lose if the States lost their rights as soverign entities.

Men don’t fight and die for that which doesn’t concern them, so why did the average Southerner fight?


112 posted on 12/03/2010 10:47:28 AM PST by paladin1_dcs
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