Subj : The Birth of a Nation (19
To   : Arelor
From : MRO
Date : Sat Nov 05 2022 03:24 pm

  Re: The Birth of a Nation (19
  By: Arelor to MRO on Sat Nov 05 2022 09:59 am

 >   Re: The Birth of a Nation (19
 >   By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Wed Oct 19 2022 09:03 pm
 >
 >  > I think slavery as a contributer to civil war was a red herring.
 >
 > I think it was Lincoln himself who said that his main goal was to unify the
 > USA and that he would take any flag that furthered that goal. If removal of
 > slavery had not been an useful flag, he would not have used it. If the
 > imposition of slavery had been a good flag to gather his people around, he
 > would have used it. I don't remember the exact quite but the idea was just
 > that one.

the unifier was the war.  the north won against the state.

each state drew up a declaration with reasons of why they were succeeding.
they didn't say 'because you are stopping slavery'. they had some really good points.

I did phrase that wrong.  i should have said MAIN contributer. It certainly was a factor; the southern states not getting the support and respect they needed from the federal govt was the driving reason the southern states wanted to leave.

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