Re: america
Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:25:13 -0800 (PST)
As far as Abe Lincoln goes, there is that sticky
> slavery issue to contend
> with. Course, if you have no problem with that....
> :)
>
> And let me throw in some sticky details. Slavery
had
> been pretty well
> defeated prior to the South seceeding from the US.
> The Missouri
> Compromise had limited legal slavery to the states
> that already had it.
> That means the Southern States, the slave states,
> would comprise an ever
> diminishing minority and slavery as an institution
> was doomed to being
> voted out. So for the South to keep the institution
> of slavery, it would
> have to seceed from the nation.
>
> The American Civil war had more American casualities
> than all other wars
> combined, to date. Or something pretty close to
> that. We did wrong and
> we paid the price...and if you want to know the
> truth, we're still paying
> the price. I'd hate to think what would happen if
> Lincoln had chosen
> otherwise...
>
> Course, if slavery and genocide don't bother you,
> then I guess the
> discussion is moot :)
>
> Jim
Yes the civil war was inevitable because of the free
state majority. It is kind of interesting to think that
maybe if Eli Whitney never invented the cotton jin then
slavery would have dissapeared, and the civil war never
would have occured. Even after the war slavery did not
totally diminish. The slave owners in the deep south
gradually freed their slaves, they were not freed all
at once. Later on the affects of the Jim Crow laws
could be considered a kind of slavery in itself. In the
Lincoln Douglas debates Pres. Abe Lincoln had stated
that his main concern was not the abolishment of
slavery, but the reuniting of the Union. The
Emancipation Proclamation was done haphazardly and it
was not his main concern. Well enough of that, I'd
better get on track now.
-Liz Friedman
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