[i_robot73]

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>>The Civil War did not start over slavery.

Maybe not, but it finished over slavery.

It even finished slavery.
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Missed one: It finished the Republic.

And, finally, I truly wish the ‘Civil War’ misnomer would DIE. The CSA wasn’t fighting over-throw the North, they were fighting their OWN ‘War of Independence’. Even the ‘War of Northern Aggression’ isn’t correct.

Bad enough the shit & downright lies they feed most K-12, they have to pervert the English language at the same time.

/peev rant off

But, yes, I do believe Lincoln and that war were the start of the fall of the Republic. Hell, even 100yrs ago The People still talked of ‘States of the Union’, our Republic...even IF they were voting in the Leftists that would rip the last of the visages asunder. They’d have been aghast, and hopefully ASHAMED, of what we have become today.

[existtoexcel]

The slavery issue was a tactical maneuver by the north to gain a sanctimonious high ground, and it worked. Eli Whitney did more to actually free slaves than President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

I liked your rant.