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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
Thorn69,
so yes, you are right that the immediate cause was whether the secessionist states had the right to leave, but that begs the question, why did they leave in the first place? It was because they were worried that the election of Lincoln as president would endanger the institution of slavery.
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Spoken like a true northerner still clinging to his justification for the invasion, mass murder, rape, pillaging, and burning down of Southern cities and towns. "We did it for the black man"! Yeah right! That's why it took another century for the black man to get rights? Get real! I don't buy it!
