Originally Posted by Birdwatcher
Originally Posted by JoeBob
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So Bleeding Kansas et al. before the war was really about the economy, people caring naught for actual principles at all?


John Brown was a dupe, a chump, and a useful idiot just like so many people are today with their pet causes.


You might have point, if'n John Brown and his boys were the whole deal.


Oh, I have a point and I just used John Brown as an example. There were many others.