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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (151908)	2/18/2002 10:54:25 AM
From: memphisguy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Yes Jefferson Davis did say this. BUT, as much as it pains me to say it(Southern Born and Bred here) The South did attack the Federals first. Therefore opening themselves up to the consequences. South Carolina paid dearly in the end for those opening shots of the war. Sherman's Federal Army delighted in making South Carolina pay for her sins. Once a sovereign country commits itself to war, they must be willing to accept the consequences of that commitment. Lincoln tried all forms of diplomacy with the South, but the South Carolina fire-eaters were intent on a war that could not be won, just as Japan's warlords were intent on a war that could not be won. The best outcome, at best, for Davis and Tojo was a short war and then sue for peace. Not a war of attrition against a power that had the industrial might of the U.S. In the end, the South was overwhelmed by the shear volume of the U.S. industrial capacity(The South was never wanting for excellent generalship) and of course the Army of the Potomac's vast regiments of immigrants.(EMPHASIS ON IMMIGRANTS for the U.S. naysayers)