[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.

[CyberCowboy777]

force its abolition in the South and the Territories.

The South was wrong to refuse it and lost the war because of it. That is all I have said from the begining.

Pride comes before a fall.

[Ditto]

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.

You should read the words of southern leaders of the time. They preached slavery as a positive good, God's way, and the natural right of freemen to hold inferiors in bondage "for their own good" and for the betterment of society. They saw it as the foundation of their culture, or as Little Alec Stephens said, the Cornerstone of their nation. They did not see it as an evil by any means.