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That's true, and there may have been fewer casualties if such a leader had stepped up sooner

• kaesar14 5y ago
  Correct, and don't discount the generations of men and women born into bondage because of the inability of northern leaders to step up sooner. It's a little insulting to suggest the half million soldiers dead are the cost of the Civil War, when it's also the millions who suffered from the existence of the institution of slavery.
• mywittyname 5y ago
  Or the USA would cease to exist. The fact that this issue needed to be settled by a brutal war puts into perspective just how difficult of a problem this was to solve. If this issue was tackled earlier, it's very possible that the country would have split into two factions, which would then compete with one another during westward expansion, triggering a conflict that would turn out to be much more devastating.