[jlogajan]

It sure is funny,,y'all never mention your slaves. Why is that??

My granddaddy was a peasant man who came to America around the turn of the 20th century. So there never were any slaves in my blood line. Sorry.

However, no "northern" states seceded over the slaver issue or any other issue.

In Minnesota's case, the state was admitted to the Union in 1858 as a free state, just two years before the election of Lincoln. Southern states attempted to delay the admission of Minnesota because they insisted that states be paired when admitted, one slave for every one free.

[SCDogPapa]

I did not mean you personally or any one Northern state.

But thanks for your comments.

[PatrickHenry]

In Minnesota's case, the state was admitted to the Union in 1858 as a free state, just two years before the election of Lincoln. Southern states attempted to delay the admission of Minnesota because they insisted that states be paired when admitted, one slave for every one free.

That symmetry, which had long preserved the Union, was broken when California came in alone in 1850. After that, the South was outvoted in the Senate and the war, or at least secession, was inevitable.