Civil War Was a War Both Sides Wanted

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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."

fall on or fall upon: "to meet with <fell on hard times>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fall

(c) William Lloyd Garrison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison
(1805-1879)

He is an avowed Unitarian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism
(d) James Buchanan (1791-1868; US President 1857-1961; Democratic Party)

He did not seek reelection in 1860.
e) "He [Fleming] quotes [John] Brown's view that 'without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin'"

remit (vt): "to release from the guilt or penalty of <remit sins>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remit