[Ohioan]

Your insulting hissing at those who disagree with you confirms my point in replies above. If you can write with such contempt of fellow Americans over what ceased to be an issue over a century & a half ago, it should be obvious why the South thought they could no longer remain in a Union conceived in a once common purpose with comrades in victorious arms in the late 1780s. (By the way, the Fugitive Slave Act was specifically authorized in the Constitution, and was one of the compromises based upon mutual respect.)

While you and I may agree that the feudal/Biblical labor system, which was replaced at various places, before and after the 1860s, around the world, was properly replaced by volitional contracts between employers & employees; that does not change historic facts.

[John S Mosby]

FYI— the dude operates under many screen names, and fully ID’d. Networks private message-wise with others who lurk on this topic. Lot of cover names of others as well. All with zero respect and monolithic views. Deo Vindice.

[rockrr]

Please feel free to point out this alleged “insulting hissing” you feel I’m committing.