[Non-Sequitur]

Bottom line is the notion has quite a bit of merit in my opinion. Had the South done this first, o ‘emancipation proclamation’ would have occured, and Lincoln wouldn’t have had that era’s version of ‘evangelical’s’ to call on against the congress grown weary of the war.

Had the South done that what would they have had to secede over in the first place?

[Badeye]

‘Had the South done that what would they have had to secede over in the first place?’

States Rights, primarily.

The fact was the writing was on the wall about slavery before the first shot was fired at Ft Sumnter. But by that point, the politicians rhetoric had reached a fevered pitched we’ve only seen once since, and that was the day after Pearl Harbor.

Its revealing to note the number of fist fights and ‘canings’ that took place in the five years before the outbreak of war in the House and Senate. Not to mention the number of duels, responded to or not, offered up.

Everybody thought it would be one big battle, and over.