Greetings Bill!   
      
    BK>>  The better question would be, should a country not kill thousand   
    BK>>  of their own people as the price for freeing millions from   
    BK>>  slavery?   
      
    RW>> As long as they're Yankees, no.   
      
    BM> Last I heard it was Yankees: 1 the South: 0   
      
   Ask yourself, how many more Yanks died than Rebels?   
      
   Dead Yanks 596,670: South 490,309   
      
   Served: Yanks 1,532,278, South 591,810 i.e. a little under 3:1   
      
   Eligible, but ran off to Canada: Yanks: 2,430,294, South: none   
      
   Even with close to total conscription, the South could not match the   
   North's numerical strength.  Southerners also stood a significantly   
   greater chance of being killed, wounded, or captured, especially if they   
   were old men, women and teenage civilians.   
      
    RW>> PS - The Civil War wasn't about slavery...but it sure turned out to   
    RW>> be a crutch for y'all.   
      
    BM> Don't you mean "totally" about slavery?   
      
   Get yer historical facts straight: The Northern and Southern sections of   
   the United States developed along different lines. The South remained a   
   predominantly agrarian economy while the North became more and more   
   industrialized. Different social cultures and political beliefs developed.   
      
   All of this led to disagreements on issues such as taxes, tariffs and   
   internal improvements as well as states rights versus federal rights.   
      
   Slavery was an excuse to make war by the Yanks 'after the war started'...   
      
    BM> The basis behind all southern contention was how the slave trade   
    BM> centered around states rights, economic freedoms and slavery itself.   
      
   Wrong, see above.   
      
    BM> Slavery.  Now unless you feel men can be owned by another, this is   
    BM> fairly self explainatory.   
      
   Moron.   
      
    BM> The good old boys   
      
   aka Democrats, no Southerun Democrats, who are now against all that   
   preaching they did back then.   
      
    BM> ... Look Twice, Save a Life... Motorcycles are EVERYWHERE!!   
      
   Got another one, he was 'beheaded'...I guess he was a christian in arab   
   clothing, looking for a 'way out'...   
      
      
       Have a day!   
      
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