[WhiskeyPapa]

It seems to me that you resent any post that dares suggest that the North might be responsible or culpable for any part of the Civil War. You have put 110% of the blame on the South.

It takes two sides to start a war.

What the north wanted was for the laws to be obeyed. Lincoln even urged that the Fugitive Slave Act be obeyed.

Notherners -wouldn't- allow the government to be thrown down by traitors. That was clearly the motivation of the northern soldiers - and Lincoln also.

Notherners in 1861 gave what Dr. McPherson called "an eagle-scream of patriotic fury."

And the war came.

Walt

[CIBGUY]

How do you explain the fact than there were slaves held in the northen states, and that Lincoln's :Emancipation Proclamtion" specifically didn't apply to those people?