标题: Civil War Was a War Both Sides Wanted [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-30-2013 11:28 标题: Civil War Was a War Both Sides Wanted Andrew Roberts, The War Both Sides Wanted. Many nations had slavery. Why did no others fight such a horrific war to end it? Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2013 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 14780262471960.html
(book review on Thomas Fleming, A Disease in the Public Mind; A new understanding of why we fought the Civil War. Da Capo, 2013)
Note:
(a) "Between North and South there were differences in folkways * * * But slavery, which was abolished in the North soon after the Revolution, was the great dividing fact between the two regions. It defined a way of life"
folkway (n; First Known Use circa 1906):
"a mode of thinking, feeling, or acting common to a given group of people; especially : a traditional social custom" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folkway
(b) "Far from feeling horror, regret and trepidation—rational emotions when civil war looms—too many Americans felt a sense of relief that they could finally fall on their hated neighbors across the Mason-Dixon Line."