To: iowamark
For one thing, the Union did not immediately declare itself on a crusade for abolition at the wars outset.Abolition was an economic sanction. Take the tractors from the farms. Note that the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) not only came years later, but only addressed the issue in the South, which had already seceded.
Hardly the way to treat any alleged primary reason for war.
4 posted on
06/11/2013 5:00:15 AM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Smokin' Joe
Hardly the way to treat any alleged primary reason for war. The north went to war to defend the union and ended up saving the slaves. The south went to war to save slavery and ended up losing everything.
34 posted on
06/11/2013 8:52:10 AM PDT by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Smokin' Joe
Slavery was the primary reason for the slave power to pretend to secession.
Union was the primary reason for the US to oppose secession.
At the end of the war, slavery was dead. The slave power lost. Anyone sad about that?
36 posted on
06/11/2013 9:29:48 AM PDT by
donmeaker
(Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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