re: 150 years ago this day...

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Good points and we all remember where Andrew Johnson called home. Unfortunately, Andy Jackson was a Democrat and Tennessee became largely Democrat Party in the population centers (as did most Southern States) during his term and after.

The North was actually less unified than the South, however, and Davis lamented the fact that Lincoln could impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus, parts of the First and Second Amendments as well as most of the Constitution when necessary to prosecute the invasion of the South, while he couldn't.

And remember that Missouri and Maryland both voted to secede and join the Confederacy, only to see the Federal Army prevent that by overthrowing the duly elected governments of those sovereign states.

Thanks for the reply.

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Jackson would've stopped it before it started. In fact, he did stop it when he threatened Calhoun with troops in South Carolina. But unfortunately he only delayed the war as Calhoun's ideas would pick up steam later.

The US, imo, was doomed from the beginning to go to war if radical social and ideological changes didn't happen. We made a compromise for the sake of the Revolutionary War but we never did hammer out those issues the way we should've instead of putting them off.

Ironically, had Richard Henry Lee's wife, author of the Lee Resolution which was the Constitutional Congress' authorization to authorize and draft the Declaration of Independence, not fallen ill when it was time to draft the Declaration things might've turned out differently. Lee was highly influential in getting delegates to vote for independence and was an abolitionist who saw slavery as immoral and proposed a gradual phase out as a solution. When his wife fell ill the Declaration moved to Thomas Jefferson who was a disciple of sorts but without Lee there Jefferson lost his nerve and worried he couldn't gain support on a divisive issue (although Jefferson did include a condemnation of slavery in his first draft although more than one founding father warned that it would be our doom not to address the issue then and there).

It's funny to think how much the Lee family shaped American history and not just Richard Henry or Robert but other Lees.