Red, the northern states did not abolish slavery, by and large, for moral reasons, but because slavery did not jive with a manufacturing economy....
You are siting alot of of state actions which are irrelevant to this discussion. The other acts are limiting the spread of slavery and do not...
As far as the secession, it was certainly constitutional and the southern states did not need permission of the federal government to secede. The...
Show me liegislation northern congressman introduced to limit or eventually abolish slavery. Even during the war northen states were importing...
red, you need to take into account that the North had a huge advantage in the house due to population. A balance in the senate was necessary to...
No I said that it was not the only or the main issue as BB has contended. Taxes and tariffs played an equally large role.
The real issue was sectionalism. The south felt alienated from the federal system by the north. They felt like colonies and that the north was...
The south fired upon Sumter because the Union tried to fortify it. The were putting military assets in a sovereign nation. How do you suppose...
That lends further credence to my asertion that the North did not go to war to abolish slavery. The border states, and areas conqured early in...
I disagree. I consider the fact that 4 union states had legal slavery, and the fringe nature of the abolition movement enough to say that slavery...
You are dead on. Simcha Jacobovici is the self described archaeologist behind this "discovery" is the same guy who discovered the ossuary that...
I have read most of the authors you mentioned, and none place the emphasis on slavery that you do. They all write on its implications and the...
Well those are the experts, but there is a great disparity in how they write. I think it is futile to argue that the war was fought over slavery....
I have no idea whose histories you have been reading, but they are a far cry from the ones I read.
Again, these are the same things that were being written whenever there was a mass imigration into this country. In the 1840's there was fear...
I like what you say martin. I would favor open imigration, but I still want a controlled border.
Good points USM. One thing you left out is that Mexico has a growing middle class and a declining population growth rate. This all spells for a...
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No it isn't. This is no different that when the Irish were going to take over. Or the Slavs. Or the Dutch. Or any other group that imigrated...
I think it's pretty incredible. If it is the tomb of Christ and His family, the Gospels must inaccurately portray Him as poor. The tomb bears...
