[Non-Sequitur]

Not anger, just posting reality of the man, from a different angle.

Speaking of reality from a different angle, how do you suppose R. Lee or J. Davis would have answered a petition made by 195 children asking to ensure the freedom of "all the slave children in this country"? Would the answer be just plain "no" or would it have been "hell, no"?

[central_va]

In the letter, dated 5 April 1864, he wrote: "Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust that they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it."

or

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that"

Clearly, a political snake....