[Colonel Kangaroo]

The Confederate regime proved my point by rejecting Cleburne’s proposal. They would rather have had defeat than gain victory without slavery because the promotion of slavery was all they were in it for. They cared nothing for the non-slaveowning whites.

[CodeToad]

There you go jumping to your own illogical conclusions again and placing the blame on dead people.

[CodeToad]

Not even Lincoln saw the war as slavery. He was for Slavery. In fact, he helped get passed a law in his own home State to prevent free slaves from becoming citizens.

Here is also his own comments about slavery as President.

Lincoln’s inaugural address, 4 March 1861:

“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”

“There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor. The clause I now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its provisions: ‘No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due. ‘ It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law.”