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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (9789)	6/14/2001 1:06:39 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

What we are arguing has been debated for the past 136 years. However, saying the Civil War wasn't fought over slavery is like saying the Revolutionary War wasn't fought over independence or World War II wasn't fought because of Hitler. Fact: If there had not been 4 million people of black skin enslaved in 1860, there would have been no Civil War. The term "states' rights" simply cannot be viewed outside of the context of slavery, as you argue. Forty years of failed compromises regarding the extension of slavery and a right-wing Supreme Court also helped ignite the cannons at Ft. Sumter. I have always wondered what would have happened had Lincoln told the South "Go ahead. Form your own country. We won't stop you." The result likely would have been the creation of a second-rate nation, with no industrial base, and no moral foundation for governance. The institution of slavery would have been dead by the late 1880s, at the latest, and the resulting country probably would have been more like Mexico than the United States.