"Samantha L." wrote:
>
> Thank you for this post. Having never looked into alternative views of the
> Civil War myself, I did always wonder why - if slavery had been the defining
> issue - that other means weren't taken to emancipate the slaves besides the
> bloody, horrid war.
A few years aft
In a message dated 5/12/00 11:04:07 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Northerners
> were seeking a moral pretext for an
> aggressive war, while Southern leaders
> were seeking a threat more concrete
> than the Northern tariff to justify a
> drive to political independence
from lewrockwell.com
Genesis of the Civil War
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The historical event that looms largest
in American public consciousness is the
Civil War. One-hundred thirty-nine
years after the first shot was fired, its
genesis is still fiercely debated and its
symbols heralded and p
