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Quotes from James M. McPhersonThis Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War — James M. McPherson

born 1936 United States

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Southern political leaders were threatening to take their states out of the Union if a Republican president was elected on a platform restricting slavery.

James M. McPhersonThis Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War (2007)

Of all these interpretations, the states' rights argument is perhaps the weakest. It fails to ask the question, states' rights for what purpose?

James M. McPhersonThis Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War (2007)

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