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To: DiogenesLamp

Great posts. Thanks. They’re very informative.

Lincoln conscripted people to fight the war. Conscription is slavery. It’s ridiculous to enslave people and claim one is fighting slavery.

The war turned a voluntary union of states into a country of states kept by force.


399 posted on 08/01/2021 2:43:14 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: TTFX

“ Lincoln conscripted people to fight the war.”

And the CSA formed a perpetual union to fight for secession from another perpetual union. This is fun!


410 posted on 08/01/2021 2:58:15 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: TTFX
Great posts. Thanks. They’re very informative.

Thanks. I've only been studying this subject for a few years. Several years ago I still believed the same thing everyone else believes, but then I started noticing things that didn't make any sense in light of what we were told.

I had never heard of the "Corwin Amendment"? Came as a shock to me. Showed me right away that the war really wasn't about slavery, it was about controlling the economics of the South.

Lincoln conscripted people to fight the war. Conscription is slavery. It’s ridiculous to enslave people and claim one is fighting slavery.

I've always wanted to hear how conscription is not a violation of the 13th amendment.

The war turned a voluntary union of states into a country of states kept by force.

Yes it did.

416 posted on 08/01/2021 3:09:44 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: TTFX
Lincoln conscripted people to fight the war. Conscription is slavery. It’s ridiculous to enslave people and claim one is fighting slavery.

So did the Confederacy. A year before the U.S. did and in much greater numbers than the U.S. got.

423 posted on 08/01/2021 3:30:41 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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