... had taken up stamp collecting instead? Would we have fewer threads?
It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it. - John Singleton Mosby
John Brown, only exacerbated an already deteriorating situation. He was neither the cause of slavery nor the inventor or secession.
The Kansas-Nebraska Bill, was the spark to the powder train. If there had been no John Brown, it would have been somebody else.
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