[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.

[stand watie]

in your dreams.

offhand i can't think of a single traditional historian who would make such a SIMPLISTIC argument.certain REVISIONISTS & southHATERS would however.

free dixie,sw

[nolu chan]

[r9etb] 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.

But the supreme irony can be found in the fact that early in 1861 the Republicans in Congress gave their votes to measures organizing the territories of Colorado, Nevada, and Dakota without prohibiting slavery. After beating Douglas in 1860, they organized the territories along the pattern of his policy, not Lincoln's.
[Author's italics.]

Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition, copr 1948, Vintage Books edition 1989, p. 152, fn.