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To: djreece
The South never wanted to take over the North. Where did you get that? The South wanted to be its own nation. This was not a Civil War, a civil war is a war between parties seeking to take over one government. This was the second american revolution, war between the states, war of rebellion or the war of northern aggression are much better titles. Choose whatever you like. Why wasn't a war fought before 1861 to end slavery if the north hated slavery so much?
98 posted on 02/19/2005 3:22:57 PM PST by libertarianben (Looking for sanity and his hard to find cousin common sense)
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To: libertarianben

Perhaps you need to reread my post. I did not say the South wanted to take over the North. (I really appreciate the insult to my intelligence.) I said that if we go down the road of "What Ifs" and the South had seceded, that given the history, proximity and economic realities, one outcome may have been that the countries would have unified again with the South in control, meaning slavery would have been written into the Constitution as it was in the Confederate constitution.

I agree that the "War between the States" would be a more accurate term. I used the term "Civil War" because that is the most common term, not as a political statement. I don't devote my life to refighting the battles of 150 years ago.

As I said, for many decades those who opposed slavery thought it would die of its own accord. In additon, there is clear historical evidence that the abolitionist movement worked to awaken the public conscience in a new way in the decades leading to the "War between the States." A number of factors brought the issue to the point of no return, sparking the war.


105 posted on 02/19/2005 4:43:31 PM PST by djreece
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