Yeah I'm not saying it wasn't a legitimate sentiment. I'm sure anyone but a pure sociopath must have had some conflicting emotions even just deep down but there's lots of social and political issues people feel some kind of way about that politicians don't really bother acknowledging legislatively until it becomes either a threat to re-election or an opportunity for elevation. But I can totally believe that Northern states opposed new slave states being admitted into the Union because the North's and the South's economic differences were creating a political division. I can also believe that Lost Cause Confederate revisionism strikes again though.
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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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