[fortheDeclaration]

in 1860, you couldn't have found a THOUSAND people ANYWHERE,who would have gone to war and KILLED a MILLION Americans. (fwiw, MANY THOUSANDS of the WAR-DEAD were slaves! they were only FREED from being ALIVE, by the very same DAMNyankee soldiers who came south "to free them"!)over slavery

No, but the Southern leadership would go to war to keep slavery alive and that meant expansion.

No one foresaw how long and bloody the war was going to be.

But according to Jeff Davis, the South stood to lose alot of money if slavery was limited and that was why the South was willing to rish secession.

Thus, slavery is the central issue of the Civil War, on whether or not it was going to be allowed to expand and live or be contained and die.

[stand watie]

laughing AT you!

when i was a college student (4 decades ago) you would have fled the campus (of ANY college in the USA) in TEARS of HUMILIATION had you posited seriously such a STUPID position! face it, "ftd" you are a "vicktumm uv duh gubint pubic screwls kuricullum" which is INTENDED to FOOL fools & nitwits like YOU. in your sad case, it OBVIOUSLY did.

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