[jeffersondem]

“The biggest joke is the North fought to free the black man. Yeah AFTER 2 years of bloodshed, conscription, race riots, draft riots and an illegal executive order it became about freeing the black man - LOLOLOL!”

I posted this awhile back but it is so good, I post it again for my good friend across the aisle - jmacusa.

“The Union government liberates the enemy’s slaves as it would the enemy’s cattle, simply to weaken them in the conflict. The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States.”
London Spectator in reference to the Emancipation Proclamation

[jmacusa]

The North went to war to preserve the Union and won. The South went to war to preserve slavery and lost everything.