Ted, > Secondly, there are historians who contend Lincoln should have let the South go. But that runs counter to the American need to muscle people into doing what it wants.
So if you were president at the time, you would have let the South secede?
I really don't know what I would have done. Forcing someone to do what they don't want to do usually ends up making for a miserable time. And the South really did not want to be part of the Union, and ever since, has complained bitterly about the North, DC, Congress, taxes, gov't, separation of church and state, etc. In addition the South seems to have developed very differently from the rest of the US.........it has its own music, its own dialect, its own cuisine, its own way of life. We might have been better off had we remained split. |
