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>What Americans Used To Know  - Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell
Since the people in southern states didn't rise up in rebellion it would appear, however unfortunate for the slaves, that the people felt no need to overthrow their governments.

However taking your logic of intervening for the sake of slaves alone one set further, why not have the US military stop chasing non-existent terrorists and invade countries like Saudi Arabia (or many others) that still hold slaves, albeit in fewer numbers and different nationalities? Well you already know why don't you, the good old petro buck and a stable oil supply. Seems this government has looked away from today's slaves since it benefits them and by default yourself. What have you done to help today's slaves? What have you done to help stop girls being taken from several different countries to work as sex slaves? Where does your moral compass point today wherein you can effect change instead of rehashing what has happened and can no longer be changed?



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Beginning of the headline :"During the weeks following the [1860] election, [Northern newspaper] editors of all parties assumed that secession as a constitutional right was not in question . . . . On the contrary, the southern claim to a right of peaceable withdrawal was countenanced out of reverence for the natural law principle of government by consent of the governed." ~ Howard Cecil Perkins, editor, Northern ... Read More
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