(Thanks, B. :)

Reader B. writes:

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Re: 'The True Cause of the Civil War'

Hobie,

"The Civil War" is a misnomer. As any Southerner knows it should be called "The War of Northern Aggression". There was nothing "civil" about it. "Civility ceased when this event occurred:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
Caning of Charles Sumner

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

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Representative Preston Brooks (left) brutally beat Senator Charles Sumner after Sumner gave an impassioned anti-slavery speech.

Events leading to [notice the last item listed]
the American Civil War

Northwest Ordinance

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Missouri Compromise

Tariff of 1828

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

Nullification Crisis

The Amistad

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

Texas annexation

Mexican?American War

Wilmot Proviso

Ostend Manifesto

Manifest destiny

Underground Railroad

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Kansas?Nebraska Act

Bleeding Kansas

Caning of Charles Sumner

Dred Scott v. Sandford

The Impending Crisis of the South

Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

1860 presidential election

Secession of Southern States

Star of the West

Corwin Amendment

Battle of Fort Sumter

Slavery

On May 22, 1856, in the United States Congress, Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with his walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier. The beating nearly killed Sumner and it drew a sharply polarized response from the American public on the subject of the expansion of slavery in the United States. It has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse"[1] that eventually led to the American Civil War.

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