reminder that the civil war was set up, started, prolonged, and in all ways dominated by ex whig party cultists who took over the north and south in the aftermath. > wtf were they fighting for when less than 1% of them actually owned slaves america was supposed to be a lose collection of states that were basically their own countries. you were allowed to leave the union at any time for any reason. the whigs did not like that, and their primary goal was to establish a national bank. no one was talking about slavery at the beginning of the war. put two and two together.
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