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Re: Wayward sisters, depart in peace

The "ship" as you call it, was NOT sinking!

The South was fearing that the Republican's were going to get enough power to free all the slaves in the South, (and elsewhere). They wouldn't stay and shore up their anti- abolitionist stance in the Government, the way the Constitution was set up to do.

The Southern newspapers, speechifiers, Government officials, Plantation owners, and in many cases, churches…worked overtime to convince the Southern folk that the only way to solve the problem was to quit the Union, and go elsewhere.

Circumvent the Constitution, was the South’s answer, and I see that as no better than what Lincoln did.

The door can swing both ways.

Kevin Dally

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