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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (51402)8/15/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Neocon   of 108807
 
1.)John Brown;
2.)Lincoln was a moderate abolitionist. The Republican Party broke with the Whigs over that issue;
3.)Yes, slavery had been debated endlessly, and the problem was the admittance of new states to the Union, which would eventually shift the balance against the slave states. Secession had mainly arisen as an idea in the context of that debate;
4.)The blockade ensued as a result of secession, prior to the outbreak of armed hostilities;
5.)The issue about which States' Rights came into question was slavery. Tariffs were an irritant, but were clearly the province of the Federal Government.....
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