I thought it was about representation in Congress. Slaves meant extra representatives for the South but the increasing population of the North under the industrial revolution was throwing the balance out of whack.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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