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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Catfish who wrote (119740)12/27/2000 4:50:30 PM
From: SecularBull  Read Replies (3) of 769667
 
It was all about economic and political power, and had little to do with the morality of slavery.

If anyone wants to talk about what is legal and moral, the question I would ask about the Civil War is this:

On what legal or moral authority was the North obliged to prevent the cessession of states from the Union?

JMHO,

LoF

PS I am not arguing that slavery was moral in any way whatsoever. Yet, it's easy to look at something that had been going on since the beginning of civilization up until 140 years ago in this country, and say that it was wrong in hindsight.
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