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KSAT Wrote: May 08, 2012 12:52 PM
Absolutely right Corbett. Many of our current problems stem from Dishonest Abe's dictatorial decision to ignore the Constitution and keep the Union together regardless of the cost (600,000 American lives). The War of Northern Aggression destroyed federalism and led to central gov't monopoly run by DC. We would be much better off today if Lincoln had allowed the South to secede. Maybe we would not have such a worldwide empire today. BTW, slavery would have fallen without a war, as happened in most other countries.
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