[MikefromOhio]

If you are saying then that the Southern boys who fought that Goon Tyrant were fighting to keep people IN slavery, me and you HAVE A PROBLEM.

So you're willing to speak for EVERY SINGLE SOUTHERN SOLDIER IN THE CIVIL WAR?

that's a joke right? You cannot honestly believe that not one singular soldier was fighting to keep the slaves.

And yes, we have a problem. Some Southern soldiers were indeed fighting to keep the slaves. If you don't like it, too damned bad.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks MfromO. Yeah, there’s a lot of revisionism about the Civil War, such as calling President Lincoln “that Goon Tyrant” (whomever did it), which betrays ignorance of what went on before and during the war. The tyrants were the jackasses who started the war — the ones with the whips in their hands.

Four million slaves times $500 equals $2 billion — and that’s not inflation-adjusted. Jokers who piss and moan about the economic basis of the Civil War are looking into the wrong bank accounts.