[Non-Sequitur]

It was never one of the reasons the North went to war. Lincoln wanted his union and was willing to do anything to preserve it including fighting a war against his countrymen and guaranteeing slavery permanently.

It was those Southern countrymen who chose war in the first place.

[groanup]

It was those Southern countrymen who chose war in the first place.

By firing the first shot at an armed Federal postition which was guarding a strategic seaport. Arguable.

[stand watie]

actually, it was lincoln, the TYRANT & cheap scheming POLITICIAN, who was NOT intelligent enough to let the southland go her own way.

sadly, lincoln wasn't smart enough to do that & a MILLION people NEEDLESSLY died, because of his arrogant stupidity.

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