How long would slavery had lasted if the South decided NOT to secede?

Let's say that Fort Sumpter was never attacked, that the Confederacy had never been founded and that Lincoln had not freed the slaves in response to the Union finding themselves in the predicament that they had.

Clearly, the slave owning states thought that Lincoln's election was the end of their world. Their worst fears were going to be realized if he declared slavery illegal and marched the troops into the South to free all of the blacks. And it's not like the South had even given him a chance to fail in dissolving slavery through due process, because they launched their attack one month after he was inaugurated.

Outside of the Southern propaganda of the time, where was the proof that Lincoln intended to unilaterally end slavery without a response to a secession? Was it even possible without the war that began from the South's attack? Was Abolition as inevitable as soon as it was?

Outside of the newly established states where slavery was prohibited, how secure was the institution in the old slave states?

In attacking the North, the Slave States eventually brought about the realization of their own fears. The South created the monster in Lincoln that they feared and through their own action, that monster came to life.

I think about the people today who are driven to create a Barack Obama that doesn't really exist. So far, they haven't acted on their fears and thus, there's no real reason to believe that those fears can be realized. All they have to do is compare the list of fears they issued four years ago in the even of Obama's election and find out that not one of them have come true.

The South in 1861 poked a bear and the bear got back at them. If they had not poked that bear, what would America look like today?

Today's Navy can kick the 1917 Navy's ass even if it has twice as many 1917 era ships

Why can't Romney figure that out?

Time Lord Problems

Colorado for Obama

If The Donald frees that badger that he's keeping hostage on his head by Halloween…

To the satisfaction of all my conditions and caveats, I will publicly declare that he's a true friend of captive head badgers everywhere and will receive an honorary commendation from the organization that I've just started, Free The Captive Head Badgers of America.

So, Don, if you truly love captive head badgers, and we all know that you do, go ahead and free your own… Do the right thing, my friend.

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On the divorce news front today…

I really don't give a flying fuck.


You'd almost think that this was already a slow news day.

What is the GOP's worst preexisting medical condition?

It's a good a thing that all of them are covered under Obamacare, right?

So The Donald is going to announce that the President is a failure…

At getting divorced.

Color me impressed.

In other breaking news today, methamphetamines are a really fucked up way to get high.

I can safely say that if anyone calls themselves an "undecided voter" at this stage in the game…

They are, in fact, either a pathological liar and unabashedly vain attention whore, a hermit who's living in a mountain top cave, or someone who's so freaking stupid that they barely have enough fully functional neurons in their brain stem to operate their autonomic nervous system.

The amount of attention that's paid to these dips hits should be shameful to anyone who's doing it.