[mac_truck]

Lincoln's intent was to cause uprisings in the South to undermine the Southern commanders' abilities to fight the war. He cared practically ZERO about the slaves. He made that abundantly clear when he told a delegation of freed slaves in Washington, DC (paraphrasing) "I do not consider you to be my equal, nor will I ever."

Lincoln said and wrote a lot of things about slaves. For example: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." To suggest as you have that Lincoln cared practically zero about them simply because he did not view them as equals is not surprising but inaccurate.

[stand watie]

sorry, mac

lincoln cared NOTHING about slavery PERIOD, until it became POLITICALLY POPULAR to oppose it.

like wee willie klintoon, he was driven ONLY by "what is popular with the people", rather than by what was/IS MORALLY CORRECT! had it been popular in the north in 1860 to KILL blacks, Jews,Latinos & Indians, lincoln would have LED the "necktie party".

as i've said MANY times, lincoln was ONLY a schemiong, cheap POLITICIAN & nothing more than that.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

sorry, mac

lincoln cared NOTHING about slavery PERIOD, until it became POLITICALLY POPULAR to oppose it.

like wee willie klintoon, he was driven ONLY by "what is popular with the people", rather than by what was/IS MORALLY CORRECT! had it been popular in the north in 1860 to KILL blacks, Jews,Latinos & Indians, lincoln would have LED the "necktie party".

as i've said MANY times, lincoln was ONLY a scheming, cheap POLITICIAN & nothing more than that.

free dixie,sw