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From: "scott s." <75270_3703a@csi.xcom>
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: SOUTHERN CIVIL WAR SUCKERS: Poor suckers dying so their rich slave owners can keep the wages down
From: "scott s." <75270_3703a@csi.xcom>
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: SOUTHERN CIVIL WAR SUCKERS: Poor suckers dying so their rich slave owners can keep the wages down
"Ray O'Hara"
news:rsudnYo70t0Qxy_anZ2dnUVZ_gmdnZ2d@rcn.net:
>
> the south fired on ft sumter because they desired war. they felt
> contempt for the north and thought a war would be a unifying force.
> they just miscalculated who it would unify more.
>
I'm not sure that is totally fair. Perhaps better would be the
deep south fired on ft sumter because they desired war as a way
to force the upper south and border south to secede. they were
correct about the former, but wrong on the latter. It was a very
near thing for the trans-Mississippi south as well.
scott s.
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