I think a compromise could have been reached short of gunfire. What would the cost be of government funded manumission of slaves versus 4 years of Civil War be?
Maybe but at the outset, nobody had the slightest suspicion that the war would last four years and cost 750,000 lives.
It's always like that. In World War I all the nations thouight the war would be over by Christmas, 1914.
And LBJ would never have started/escalated the viet anm War had he kknown it would cost 58,000 American lives, not to mention the lives of many Vietnamese, and that our aims would not be achieved.
Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.
Democrats would burn this country to the ground, if they could rule over the ashes.
