[CyberCowboy777]

Are you ignoring the 20 years before Lincoln?

Fighting for the preservation of slavery is well documented and it is on the part of the South.

I do not care what other issues the CSA fought for, preservation of slavery was one of them and it was evil.

[Senator Pardek]

The South = BBQ-eating surrender monkeys.

[talleyman]

Please re-read #240. We all agree slavery was evil - in both the North and the South. The Southern fixation with preserving it was a direct result of some in the North seeking to force its abolition in the South and the Territories. "Because you demand it, I refuse it." (cf Post #240.) The North hated slavery so much they couldn't get their hands on enough tobacco and cotton.