[ml/nj]

My my it doesn't even matter to you that these documents were the southern equivalent (in their day) of the federalist papers and the declaration of independence.

Do you think

that wars are always fought for the reasons the leaders profess to be fighting them for?

Remember the Maine!

(And these documents are hardly the equivalents of the Federalist Papers and/or the Declaration of Independance. - Most Freepers capitalize the first letters of the names of these. You should too.)

ML/NJ

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Considering that the Crittendon Compromise, the Washington Peace Delegation and the Committee of 13 considered exclusively the issue of slavery, and the failure of the Peace Delegation lead directly to the Civil War, I hardly think that slavery was a minor player in the game.