What actually triggered the Civil War was that half the country refused to accept the results of an election won by the Republican.
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you'd think "people aren't property" would end this whole thing in 2017. but the civilized conservatives dont seem to agree.
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Indeed. And in any event, it remained more willing to compromise on slavery all the way to 1865 than the South was on anything.
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Y’all do realize that Lysander Spooner was an abolitionist before abolition was cool and FedGov put a bounty on his head, right?
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1/Actually, few northerners were abolitionists; most less antislavery than anti-slaveholder. Saw them as trying to lord it over *whites.*
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2/Only as it became clear that slavery would destroy the country if retained did northerners make its ending a war aim.
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3/That's why Lincoln in the 2nd Inaug. warned the crowd against gloating; slavery was the *national* sin, not just a southern one.
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