Keith In Tampa
Moreover, Lincoln could have avoided the war,
if he had one ounce of diplomatic skills, which
obviously he didn't.
MJ
Of course Lincoln could have avoided HIS war, but it
had to do with enforcing the Morrill Tarriff and implementing
Clay's America System rather than 'diplomacy'. The
South was even willing to walk with a proportionate share
of the nation's debt ....
Keith In Tampa
The most glaring proof lies in the reaction to the
Emancipation Proclamation, which was simply an
ultimatum to the Confederacy. All states not in
<snip>
MJ
It was a military tactic designed to keep European powers
from aiding the South.
Keith In Tampa
Revisionist historians and Moonbats would like to portray
Lincoln as this individual who ended slavery, and that the
Southern United States whole initiative in seceding and
<snip>
All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved
the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a
"government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor"
are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats so transparent
that they ought to deceive no one.
-- Massachusetts abolitionist Lysander Spooner, 1870
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