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To: DoodleDawg; PATRIOT1876
Besides, the Civil War was not primarily about slavery. Lincoln did that mid-war as a PR move.

Really? The people who fought the war would disagree with you.

The Civil War was about States Rights, not about slavery.

87 posted on 05/25/2017 4:51:48 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea ((I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders))
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Which “states rights” specifically? The only one they ever mentioned was the right to own other human beings.


89 posted on 05/25/2017 4:53:20 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
"The Civil War was about States Rights, not about slavery."

The Civil War was about the Southern Slave States Rights.

95 posted on 05/25/2017 5:13:38 PM PDT by HandyDandy ("I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn war.")
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
The Civil War was about States Rights, not about slavery.

The leaders of the time would disagree with you. But what did they know?

105 posted on 05/26/2017 1:33:24 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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