[jeffersondem]

“I like to think that preserving the country that our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us, whole and intact, was high moral cause enough.”

“Whole and intact”?

Not quite whole and intact. It was missing something. About 650,000 people, many of them descendants of the Founding Fathers.

And it lost the original constitution bequeathed by the founding fathers.

Arguably, it was a small price to pay to be happily ruled by Washington D.C.

[DoodleDawg]

Not quite whole and intact. It was missing something. About 650,000 people, many of them descendants of the Founding Fathers.

Lay the blame for them at the feet of Jefferson Davis and the Confederate leadership.

And it lost the original constitution bequeathed by the founding fathers.

A matter of opinion.

Arguably, it was a small price to pay to be happily ruled by Washington D.C.

Again, opinion.

[DiogenesLamp]

Not quite whole and intact. It was missing something. About 650,000 people, many of them descendants of the Founding Fathers.

I saw last year where the best tally of the civil war casualties was released, and the number has been upgraded to 750,000 casualties.