[Dr Warmoose]

If they gained their wish, then the border wars would begin.

So to avert war, it is important to instigate war.

[donmeaker]

The war was begun by the South. To avert ceaseless war, one must take resolute action to be sure that those who begin war pay a heavy price. The price was paid. The south had 4 billion "then year" dollars in chattle slavery. They began the war to protect that investment, and at the end, it was gone. Most of the slave owners were either dead, or childless. Those neo-successionists who exist are hopelessly irrelevent. Lincoln did a great job, and alas, faced with such a immoral and relentless foe, the price could be no less. An enemy who asserted his right to rape, under color of authority, helpless children, is not expected to show mercy on the battlefield, and at Ft Pillow to the crater, they did not. Linoln showed far greater mercy than the Southrons ever considered.