[That is a real gem isn't it...? Relegating other human beings to the status of "livestock". All some gotta do to justify abhorrent treatment of other human beings is to demonize em' first...just like the Nazi's did with the Jews and millions of others
Exactly!
That's how most southerners felt when they voted state by state to secede, especially since more than 90 percent did not own slaves.
To help you out, its like having your taxes pay for abortions or sex alterations or for illegals to get welfare....or for folks who don't work to not have to.
Of course now tell us that the Northern states and enlistees knew they were signing up to free all the slaves and make them full citizens and your Civil War = all about slavery argument might have merit.
The North despised the Dred Scott fiasco and the South despised Federal intervention in determining slavery in states and territories.
People get pissed when their government is used as a weapon....
