Replying to a message of Dan Ceppa to Bob Ackley:

 DC> -> On 27 Jun 09  01:19:16, Bob Ackley got back to Bob Klahn 
 DC> -> Re: Lost messages

 BK>>>>  Arguing whether it's constitutional is often a way of avoiding
 BK>>>>  the question of was it the right thing to do.

 BA>> Slavery is inherently uneconomical and would have died out by the end
 BA>> of the 1800s, because most of the jobs slaves had been doing were
 BA>> being done by  machines by then.  Freeing the slaves would have
 BA>> happened anyway, Lincoln's unConstitutional little war only speeded
 BA>> it up by 35-40 years, and killed 300,000 people in the process - and
 BA>> also resulted in 150 (and counting) years of enmity in some areas.

 DC> Actually, the whole thing started with the compromise on slavery in
 DC> the  original Constituion.  The lines were drawn then.  The 1850s
 DC> were when those  lines became rigid and volatile.

People also don't want to talk about the hundreds if not thousands of southerners
who left the country after Lee surrendered.  Some years back I read about a colony
of their descendants living in Brazil, I'm sure there are others.

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