Post Post script! Just finished reading the most objective look at the real causes of the Civil War/War Between the States that I've seen so far. Can't say I've read all of the estimated 50,000 to 70,000 books and articles on it, but I have read a few of them. The best I've read so far is: "When in the Course of Human Events, by Charles Adams, ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. - London - Boulder - New York - Oxford, Copyright 2000 by Charles Adams -- ISBN 0-8476-9722-3 Jack Landers