[JCBreckenridge]

“untrammeled expansion of slavery which is what the South demanded and the North rejected?”

I’d love to see evidence that the South wanted to expand slavery north of the Missouri Compromise line. This is false.

“But please stop pretending that secession was not about slavery. It was -— 100% about slavery.”

Which is why the emancipation proclamation freed the slaves in the north? No. It was about secession.

[central_va]

The ONLY reason why the Northern racists wanted to stop the expansion of slavery in the western territories was “to keep it lily white for all time”.

[Ditto]

I’d love to see evidence that the South wanted to expand slavery north of the Missouri Compromise line.

What do you call Kansas and Nebraska? Look at a map!

Missouri Compromise Line... (Green)