[Retain Mike]

John Kelly correctly identifies political failure as the reason for the Civil War. Slavery was a dying institution when the Constitution was approved, and was later revived by the invention of the cotton gin. Never the less, Britain abolished slavery in 1833.

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.

[Dawgreg]

Thank you Mike. Beautifully and well put. Right on the mark.......;)

[Cuttnhorse]

I am just finishing Jon Meacham’s excellent book on Andrew Jackson and was surprised to learn that the seeds of the Civil War were really planted in the late 1820s, and in 1833 South Carolina was storing munitions and forming a volunteer army in preparation of war...this all over the South’s nullification of the tariff imposed on them.

Several southern states and a few northern states being sympathetic to the concept of nullification and openly discussing and advocating secession.

[central_va]

The bloodiest conflict our country ever endured resolved the issues of states’ rights

The Civil War settled nothing regarding states rights. There is(still) nothing in the US Constituion prohibiting state(s) secession. Nothing.

Ever wonder why after the Civil War there was no secession prohibition amandmant added?