Matt Barrow wrote:
"Neil Gould" wrote in message
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Recently, Jim Macklin posted:

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.

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?

Do you think any southern politician would have agreed to a compromise
abolishing both? Pretty much every abolitionist would have jumped
at that opportunity.



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".

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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