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Pitts is the reason why I cancelled my daily newspaper subscription several years back. He views everything through a racial lens - every article is the same, every week.

He plays the "expert" on everything: economy, politics, education, healthcare. Problem is, he weaves racism into every story.

[GOP_Raider]

Against my better judgment, I'm kind of in the process of formulating another thrilling 18 Questions on the Civil War, like I did about a year or so ago. One of them was going to do with this quote from Abraham Lincoln himself, which was in response to a Horace Greeley editorial:

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.

Every time I read this, it strikes me as Lincoln's way of saying to the abolitionists "look, if we don't find a way to win this thing, abolishing chattel slavery will be the least of our problems." My question with this quote is actually twofold: 1) is the aforementioned analysis of that quote correct? and 2) does this statement prove the meme that before 1/1/1863 abolishing slavery wasn't an ultimate objective of the war?