Quote Originally Posted by Mael Coluim View Post
Our local newspaper, The Free Lance Star carried this column 'The New Intolerance' in its Saturday's Editorial section.
So if I understand Buchanan's point, the fact that Virginia and the accompanying states tried to secede from the Union because they didn't want to fight other southern states made it okay for them to fight northern states in their defense.

They could have chosen neutrality, I would think. This would mean that this nation is not worth fighting for to defend. Also, Buchanan never says what he understood the cause of the initial secession to be. Slavery?