And?
That was 2 percent of the population.
The equivalent to 6 million Americans dying today.
The heck is he doing, pontificating on the civil war? Did he ever catch those White House leakers? I missed the frog march.
Kelly’s not the only one who believed it was unnecessary.
The libs are always saying that negotiation is better than war. They should be agreeing with Kelly.
so......we should have agreed to let black people remain in a LITTLE BIT of slavery?
IMO, compromise is a slow surrender!
Lee?
Lee was right!
He missed a coupla good opportunities they say: He failed to continue on to the swamp @ Mannasas, and immediately after Gettysburg he failed again to go to the swamp, even though he was then in between the yankke army and lincoln.
So they say...but NOT the current THEY!
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I see nothing wrong with his comments. I’m sure there were men and leaders during the Civil War who asked themselves “how did we let it come to this?” as they surveyed the carnage.
A friend was telling me the other day that his West Point graduate bass was espousing this the other day as how they are taught the Civil War at West Point.
In the way he explained it, it made a lot of sense.
Unless Trump told Kelly to go out and create a distraction, it’s hard to see the utility in this statement.
If only we had a time machine to take us back to show leaders at the time what horror their decision to go to war caused.
If Kaiser Wilhelm could have been told WWI would last 4 years, killing millions and he would be deposed at the end.
If leaders in the pre-US Civil War could know the cost in lives and devastation to the South, maybe they would have agreed to free the slaves and compensate the then slave owners with a federal payment funded by national and import taxes. Maybe the newly freed could have been protected with laws allowing them work and education to integrate them into the national society.
Compromise=negotiation=artofthedeal
Once South Carolina declared its independence, the Federal government had no reason to maintain an armed force at Fort Sumter.
A small compromise to prevent a war. Relinquish it.
Wonder if the South would have freed the slaves if the North would have taken half of them
The US military is understandably not keen on giving up military bases it owns outright. Fort Sumter was literally a US-military-made island (artificial), and occupants were minding their own business, not interfering with anything else in the area - and did not take kindly to getting shelled by the nearby country. “Compromise” favoring peace would have required nothing more than the CSA leave the fort alone.
The Republicans offered a great deal of compromise, but the Democrats who ran the Slave Power didn’t want any part of it.
Not all slave states were in the south. NY was a slave state. The southern states were making trade deals with our mortal enemy Great Britian. GB was against slavery, but ran the slave trade.
What the south was doing was unconstitutional. No state is to enter a trade agreement. Especially, with a hostile nation. Let’s say North Dakota decided to trade Bakken oil for North Korean workers.
The compromise would have been something like this: Stop trading with our enemies or we will make you stop.
The Southern States told the Northern States to go fornicate themselves. The Northern States carried through on thier promise.
“Lack of compromise led to the Civil War”?
No, it was too much compromise that led to the Civil War, starting in the 1820’s.
The seeds were sown by the Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas Nebraska Act. And by Supreme Court “compromise” rulings like Dred Scott.
Compromise and indecisiveness also led to the demise of the Whig Party, and the start of the Republican Party, which is now on a suicide watch as it emulates the Whig Party on modern issues where it constantly “reaches across the aisle” to help the democrat socialists enact anti-American laws and destroy American culture.
16 Compromising Republicans were tossed aside by the American voters for a non-compromising Donald Trump who actually stood for principles that previously had no defenders.
Compromise, General?
Tell that to the democrats.
Even back then they knew that compromising with bad policy is like adding a little sewage to0 your drinking water.
Military involvement came after abolitionists and planters and their political allies failed to identify from British precedent those compromises outside inflexible ideologies that would have brought peaceful agreement. Through their dereliction of duty these fire-eating miscreants of both persuasions stumbled us into the Civil War.
The bloodiest conflict our country ever endured resolved the issues of states’ rights, secession, and slavery, and relied exclusively on military actions. These military actions were fought out to the last measure of human endurance. Great men like Grant, Sherman, Lee, and Johnston, and their soldiers and sailors resolved what should have been political issues. Monuments North and South testify to the sincerity of those few who endured the tragedy of that struggle.
Now similar mediocre intellectual dwarfs would repudiate this history.