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Parting Company

MatthewlovesAyn Wrote: Nov 28, 2012 10:38 AM
From now on, that's how I will refer to it.
Younger Wrote: Nov 28, 2012 11:13 AM
The War for Southern Independence was not a civil war, for the people of the Confederacy were not wanting to control the government of the United States; they simply wanted to secede from the United States.
The English Civil War, fought in the seventeenth century, was a war between King Charles the First and Parliament; both wanted to control the government.
Chris from Kalifornia Wrote: Nov 28, 2012 10:49 AM
The United States Census of 1860 was the eighth Census conducted in the United States. It determined the population of the United States to be 31,443,321 – an increase of 35.4 percent over the 23,191,875 persons enumerated during the 1850 Census. The total population included 3,953,761 slaves – representing 12.7% of the total population.

Per wikipedia. 600 thousand is almost 2 percent of the population. That's crazy high when you think that perhaps 1/4 were of an age where they could even fight and half of that 1/4 is women who were mostly not allowed to fight.
Chris from Kalifornia Wrote: Nov 28, 2012 10:45 AM
It was probably the most UNcivil war we have ever engaged in. And yes, I think Lincoln was wrong. What was the total population of the country in 1860/61? 75 million? 50 million? His actions resulted in the death of over a half million people.
For decades, it has been obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between Americans who want to control the lives of others and those who wish to be left alone. Which is the more peaceful solution: Americans using the brute force of government to beat liberty-minded people into submission or simply parting company? In a marriage, where vows are ignored and broken, divorce is the most peaceful solution. Similarly, our constitutional and human rights have been increasingly violated by a government instituted to protect them. Americans who support constitutional abrogation have no intention of mending their ways.

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