re: 154 years ago today.

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Maybe war was the best way or the only "sure" way, but it was not the only way. In hindsight, particularly the bitter Reconstruction era, the long, bloody civil rights struggle and this seemingly unending impasse between the races even to this day, perhaps an organic, less violent resolution, through an erosive process would have been a better way to go.

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I'm of the opinion that a war was enshrined in our constitution by the three-fifths compromise and by the desire for slavery to be included in the westward expansion of the country.