If you say that Lincoln was writing that he would free none of the slaves at the same time he was sending around drafts of the emancipation proclamation, it certainly sounds like double dealing to me.
It was not the Northern one.
And yet discussions of the civil war always end up with justifying it because of the abolition of slavery, when even you admit that this was not the aim of the war.
Suppressing Southern Independence was the aim of the war, and Abolishing slavery was an ex post fact addendum.
As you said earlier.
And yet discussions of the civil war always end up with justifying it because of the abolition of slavery, when even you admit that this was not the aim of the war.
Most people who have spent any time reading up on the Civil War will say without hesitation that from the Union standpoint the ending of slavery was not a goal of the war. A happy outcome, but not the goal. Most Southern supporters who have spent little or no time reading up on the Civil War will deny that slavery played any part in the Southern decision to secede and start the war. They, of course, are wrong.
Suppressing Southern Independence rebellion was the aim of the war, and Abolishing slavery was an ex post fact addendum.
There, I fixed it for you.