People were killed in "Bloody Kansas" for lots or reasons
that make little sense today.



wrote in message
ups.com...
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| Matt Barrow wrote:
| "Neil Gould" wrote in message
| om...
| Recently, Jim Macklin
posted:
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| Importation of slaves was illegal in the USA after
1807, but
| ownership was still legal. The South's economy was
based on
| hand labor agriculture, cotton. A lot of white
people
| fought and died to free the slaves. A lot of
Southerners
| fought and died to preserve their life-style. Both
were
| honorable.
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| The petitions issued from the south prior to 1861 all
regarded TARIFFS that
| were deliberatley put in place to favor the industrial
north.
|
| Nobody killed anyone in bloody Kansas over tariffs.
|
| How about petitions issued from the North, calling for the
aboltion
| of slavery?
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| Do you think any southern politician would have agreed to
a compromise
| abolishing both? Pretty much every abolitionist would
have jumped
| at that opportunity.
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|
|
| So, you believe it is honorable to fight and die to
preserve the ability
| to own people as property?
|
| Gee...isn't hindsight beautiful? Wanna bet a months pay
which side you'd
| have been on IN REAL TIME? Bet that145 years ago, you'd
been "Massa".
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| Dunno about him, but 145 years ago my great-great
gandfather, an
| Irish immigrant, enlisted with the Ohio 41st volunteer
infantry.
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| FF
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