Chechnya: response to Russian invasion?

[William S. Lear]

On Friday, October 1, 1999 at 16:50:04 (-0700) Brad De Long writes:
>...
>Brad DeLong, suddenly reminded of the claim that the U.S. Civil War 
>started because Lincoln and the Republican Party infringed "states' 
>rights" to self determination...

More precisely, because the North infringed upon "the right normally
accorded capital in America to seek the highest possible rate of
return by going anywhere it pleased."

I have scanned a section dealing with the Civil War from Thomas
Ferguson's book *Golden Rule*.  It is too long to post, so you can
read it at http://www.zopyra.com/~rael/texts/FergusonCivilWar.txt

Bill