[stand watie]

once again, i'll happily agree provided that you include the words "The SLAVEOWNERS of the" before the word South.

NOBODY else in the southland, except the slavers or course, cared if slavery was spread to the western territories. since only 5-6% of southerners EVER owned a slave AND the "peculiar institution" was DYING an UN-lamented natural death, most people north OR south did NOT care about the supposed "spread of slavery".

free dixie,sw

[Heyworth]

NOBODY else in the southland, except the slavers or course, cared if slavery was spread to the western territories. since only 5-6% of southerners EVER owned a slave AND the "peculiar institution" was DYING an UN-lamented natural death, most people north OR south did NOT care about the supposed "spread of slavery".

Evidence, Watie? You make this assertion a lot, but you still haven't posted one scrap of evidence for it, other than a mention that it was in the unpublished dissertation of a professor of yours who is now dead. I've posted academically-accepted evidence that about 30% of southern FAMILIES owned slaves, which is not a number incompatible with your 5-6%, calculated as heads of households with average size families, but you don't accept that formulation, do you?

[Heyworth]

Your namesake was apparently one of those slaveowners. It seems that the Ridge-Watie faction, in fact, owned most of the Cherokee's slaves.

[r9etb]

NOBODY else in the southland, except the slavers or course, cared if slavery was spread to the western territories.

We've already dealt with and disposed of this. The Sectional Crises, which ultimately caused the South to secede, and which thereby led to the Civil War, were about slavery. Nothing more or less.