Anne of course has it right; the point of secession was to preserve slavery and
protect it from Lincoln, who was a theat to slavery, although very very much a
long-range threat, until of course secession allowed him the military option for
emancipation.

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Anne Pemberton wrote:

> Funny you should mention the Clinton's. While you were depriving yourself
> of your cell phone I was watching a program on the Clinton presidency, a
> rebroadcast of a class of U or Arkansas, which is run on Friday nights on
> CSpan 2. Prior to the lesson, I was on the http://www.civilwarhome.com
> site, checking out the State's Rights explanation under Civil War Potpourri
> on http://www.civilwarhome.com/statesrights.htm which pretty much confirms
> that the term State's Rights was merely a smoke screen for the intent to
> spread slavery when the ethics of slavery were under scrutiny. The new
> government of the Confederacy did not provide the "States Rights" that the
> south wanted from the US. So what was the point?
>
>                                  Anne
>
> PS: don't own a cell phone, but have seen its use and abuse.
>
> At 11:46 PM 2/21/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >         I thought that overall the movie Gods and Generals was a pretty good
> >history lesson on the part of the Civil War that was portrayed therein.
> >However, you probably won't like the movie if:
>
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