Free Elections Come First- October 28, 2007 During the slavery controversy of the 1850s, Northerners who opposed confronting the South argued for letting nature take its course. Slavery was doomed, they argued, because it could not spread where the climate was inhospitable to cotton and because the atavistic slave system would inevitably be overtaken by industrialization.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102601862.html?nav=r... |