Yes, I have. And yes, it was...for the recruits.
There weren't many young farmers or northern coal miners who EVER understood the ramifications of the Civil War, let alone what actually started it. Their eyes would have glazed over. So both the North and the South recruited using what governments use best...emotionalism.
The war itself was fought over politicians from the North wanting to create a NATIONAL debt. It was a very unfair proposal since the economies of the North and South were so vastly different. The South did NOT want to be forced to pay for the North's debts. When Lincoln held the Union by FORCE, he effectively cancelled out States' Rights because the FED trumps the state every time. Witness the medicinal marajuana law in CA and the assisted suicide law in ?Oregon.
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The leading spokesmen were largely state-centered men with regional and local interests and loyalties. Madison wrote, "The anti-Federalists attacked wildly on several fronts: the lack of a bill of rights, discrimination against southern states in navigation legislation, direct taxation, the loss of state sovereignty."