[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "No it isn't, and you haven't even attempted to address it. "

Of course I did, many times.
But by your own highly public confession, you don't read my posts, so you have no real clue what I've been saying.
That lets you endlessly pretend that I've been nonresponsive, when in fact it's you with blinders on, my FRiend DiogenesLamp.

[DiogenesLamp]

If you are going to bring up specie, and insist it has something to do with the loss of money to the North from Southern independence, then you *DON'T* understand the economic issues involved.

The only economic considerations that affect whether or not the North needed to go to war with the South, are those that are affected by Southern Independence.

"Specie" would remain the same with or without Southern independence, and so therefore it is a non factor in regards to the North's decision to invade the South to stop their independence.

I don't have to read the rest of what you wrote. When you write "specie" you don't grasp the point.

As Wolfgang Pauli said: "You are not even wrong."