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Ya-ta Boy
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Location: Established in 1994
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My understanding has always been that while Lincoln fought the war simply to preserve the union, the reason that the south seceded in the first place was because they thought that Lincoln's ascendancy threatened the future of slavery.
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Another way of saying this is that the Civil War was fought over the principle of States Rights vs Federal Power (where sovereignty lay) and the particular issue where the sides parted company was slavery. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Woland wrote: |
| At a minimum, John Calhoun should be out, and Eugene V. Debs should be in. |
Absolutely agreed. |
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