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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Neocon who wrote (51374)	8/15/1999 11:57:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (2) of 108807

You may be referring to Sam Brown, the abolitionist. He was hung, I think, even before the civil war started. The slavery issue was a big issue. It was argued for years in congress before the war. States were divided over it. new states were either free or slave when they came into the union. The Supreme Court handed down a decision before the war saying plainly that slavery was legal. The bottom line though was that the south wanted to secede because they were not going to knuckle under to the national government in Washington and the North, who were trying to dictate the South's economic policies. The North blockade of the Southern shipping was not to stop slavery. It was to stop the South from selling their raw materials, primarily cotton to England and Europe at a higher price than the North was willing to pay.It was robbing the North of the raw materials needed for their industry and causing a lot of financial loss. People are usually not willing to go to war and die so factories can make a profit so the Government played up the slavery and morality issues. But it was about states rights. The victor's write the epitaphs too, or is that the history books! LOL.

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