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It is grotesque that you suggest that people should remain slaves just because it is the law.

It is grotesque that you suggest that states should remain slaves (er, in the Union) just because the Northern states claim it is the law. Your duty to "morality" has been shown again and again to be sparse and selective. In your view it was moral to disregard 1,500 years of Augustinian "Just War" precepts by Sheridan and Sherman (eg. the rape and pillage of the civilian population as a matter of POLICY) but slavery was immoral. You are quite a confused person - your arguments are better when you simply stick to, "Because we yankees won, that's why." Skip the morality play - it does not wash with those of us that have read your drivel before.

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WhiskeyPapa is not the subject of this thread, and Sherman and Sheridan have not come up until you mentioned them.

There is no way to have a useful discussion unless one keeps on the subject.

Let's do the "March to the Sea" another time, and for now, ask whether it is true that the American Founding enshrined a legal and peaceful right to secession.

Regards,

Richard F.