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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (38672)	5/30/1999 11:51:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, yes, that does sound right. But I was under the impression that the Southern Confederation attempted outright secession from the USA because they wanted to protect the right to hold slaves. My, my, high school and college both seem like a very long time ago at the moment. Um, let me continue with my simplistic picture . . . So the Northerners risked losing territory in an abstract way, but no one was trying to make them change the basic way they operated, which is what the Union was perceived as doing to the South. So from this I was extrapolating that the Southern soldiers would feel much more threatened, more bent out of shape. I do think that it is important to remember that the Underground Railroad did really exist, and that there was a vast and growing sentiment against slavery. It was not SIMPLY a duplicitous Northern grab for economic supremacy, etc.