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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (722967)6/27/2013 6:04:33 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1578611
 
>> I have never said northerners were pure in this matter. But they were smart enough not to fight in defense of slavery.

There is every reason to believe the entire thing would have been reversed had the North been agriculturally based. You see, it wasn't really about the slavery. It was about states rights, it was about whose ox was being gored, it was about economics; and slavery, per-se, was pretty far down the list.

I understand the issues very well. And I repeat the North was smart enough not to defend slavery. Its a repugnant institution that should have been allowed to die a quiet death. However, the South chose to defend it.
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