-> On 27 Jun 09  01:19:16, Bob Ackley got back to Bob Klahn 
-> 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 being
 BA> done by  machines by then.  Freeing the slaves would have happened
 BA> anyway, Lincoln's unConstitutional little war only speeded it up by
 BA> 35-40 years, and killed 300,000 people in the process - and also
 BA> resulted in 150 (and counting) years of enmity in some areas.

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

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