Slavery is not just an issue of power and economics, it is also an issue of
morality. The morality along with the human and civil rights issues of
slavery fulfill the meanings of the rights promised in our Declaration of
Independence from England.

The issue started when the southern states bullied the rest of the states
into a 3/5 compromise on the humanity of those held in bondage. The rest
was downhill from there.

                                 Anne

At 06:02 PM 2/25/03 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2/25/03 1:55:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
>writes:
>
>
> >  In that sense, it seems entirely reasonable
> > and correct, based on the overwhelming preponderance of the evidence, to
> > say that the war was about slavery
>
>Slavery might have been one of the underlying issue that drove the State
>right issue... but slavery is an issue of power and economics...still I
>believe it was one of a number of factors that cause the spilt. This spilt
>started with Wilmot Provisos(sp) (a slavery issue raised because they wanted
>to get back a POLK's party)....and only got worse as every difference between
>the North and South became something to argue over.......we still doing it
>today
>
>Bill Buser...AKA LVT430 sorry about that
>
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