[paristwelve]

If I might...
Exactly, “Slavery could never survive in a free nation” so it would have evolved out of the picture. It would have been a question of time. But the abolition movement and the media frenzy wanted quick action, something had to be done, and look at the result, lives lost and the South left in ruins.
It would have been better to have left them alone.

[BnBlFlag]

“If I might...
Exactly, “Slavery could never survive in a free nation” so it would have evolved out of the picture. It would have been a question of time. But the abolition movement and the media frenzy wanted quick action, something had to be done, and look at the result, lives lost and the South left in ruins.
It would have been better to have left them alone.”

The Radical Yankees then and now, as evidenced by many PC posters on this thread and on many others, were and still are not interested in leaving us alone. They react in orgasmic exultation about “leaving the South in ruins”.
These pricks are on the other side in the presently raging “culture war” and can barely disguise their liberalism here on FR.

[drjimmy]

“Slavery could never survive in a free nation” so it would have evolved out of the picture. It would have been a question of time. But the abolition movement and the media frenzy wanted quick action, something had to be done, and look at the result, lives lost and the South left in ruins. It would have been better to have left them alone.

Lawdy, Massa. Thanks you ever so much for letting me and my kin know that we will be evolving into free men if those nasty abolitionists and media just shut up. That Frederick Douglass shore is one uppity nigra.

I knows you just want to be left alone, Massa. Except, of course, for me and my kin who picks your cotton, cleans your clothes, cooks your meals, and drives you to church ever Sunday. When this evolution thing happens, be shore and come into the fields to let me know, Massa. I promise I be a good nigra and won't try to run away befo then.

[Non-Sequitur]

It would have been a question of time.

Slavery had been going on in the U.S. for 240 years. How much longer was OK with you?

...and look at the result, lives lost and the South left in ruins

And had the confederacy not chosen war to further their aims then there would have been no lives lost and nothing left in ruins. The South has nobody but themselves to blame.