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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (51675)8/16/1999 9:34:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The Southern secession was a brilliant withdrawal from an unbeatable position. They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
You must read about the Crittenden Compromise. The proposed 13th Amendment (not the one that was adoped in 1865) would have made slavery legal everywhere in the United States, enforced the fugitive slave acts, and forbidden any attack on slavery. The Constitution could not be amended to outlaw slavery. I believe it represented majority opinion in the North.
I believe that had the South displayed any wisdom at all, they would have stayed and adopted the 13th Amendment.
I cannot imagine anything worse happening in human history.
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