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I'm convinced that the American Civil War could have been avoided and the Union preserved had the right people been in charge during 1850-1861.  There were influential voices in the South who knew that slavery was doomed to eventual extinction;  not only on moral grounds, but the costs of maintaining a slave population were becoming economically unviable.  The Federal government could have addressed the issues of "slavery" and "States Rights" head-on.  States Rights could have been protected, and slavery phased-out over time had the Federal government worked directly and individually with the Southern States to do so!  I suspect that the phase-out would have been accomplished in no more than ten years.  Instead, it was acomplished in five years, but with disastrous results that remain with us today.  "Should'a, Would'a, Could'a"!


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