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To: James R. Barrett who wrote (33)	9/16/1996 3:14:00 AM
From: The Sage	of 87

Dear James R. Your thoughts regarding lust for land are certainly correct. Hitler's need for Leibensraum-- living space was one prime example. The Japanese in WWII certainly wanted the natural resouces of southwest Asia. Yes, the North did want to retake the South during the Civil War. But the slavery question AND LAND was a factor in the cause of the War. The whole State's Rights question was a result of which factor-- slave or free would control the new states coming into the Union. You are also correct in thinking that the war was not fought to free the slaves. It wasn't. Freeing the slaves was a shrewd, political move by Lincoln to keep both England out of the war and the abolishionists happy. Indirectly, though slavery did cause the firing upon Ft. Sumpter. The Fire Eaters in Charleston were the real cause of the war. It is my belief that had they not fired upon our glorious banner, they would have been treated as wayward sisters and let go. Why it wasn't but thirty years earlier I can recall that the northern counties of Vermont were going to leave the Union and form their own "North East Kingdom." Cump Sherman and I had a long talk about this in a hotel parlor one evening back in the early 1860s. As I mentioned in another post, he believed that the war would be long and costly. (His beliefs caused him to resign because it was contrary to the prevailing attitude in Washington.) Turned out he was right. Grant, was also an old friend of his and urged him to rejoin. I think though, in later years, he was sorry that he achieved so much fame. He told me a few years before he died that he had two tragedies in his life. The first was that someone wrote the song, "Marching Through Georgia." And, the second that his only son became a priest. I'm digressing.. Thank you for your post. The Sage

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