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To: MacDorcha
As for Lincoln, his goal was to end slavery peacefully, or as he stated, put slavery back on the road to extinction." Well, he did a crappy job.

Well, it was you that fired on the U.S. Flag.

He stated that he was under obligation to uphold the U.S. laws, but you were under no obligation to revolt.

You chose to revolt, and he was forced to take action, as any decent U.S. President would have.

"Your Confederate Constitution made it permanent." Whatever happend to all that talk about it being "Americans versus Americans"?

It was a Confederate Constititution, an anti-American document.

One that your ancestors wrongly fought for.

"Your" Ptoi! "No, slavery was already legal in the Southern states, Lincoln was intending on stopping it expansion." You are failing to make sense here (again) re-read what you responded to on that.

No, I am making perfect sense, but you do not want to understand the truth.

Lincoln was not elected to end slavery where it existed, he was elected to stop its expansion.

That is all that he ever claimed he could do according to the Constitution.

207 posted on 04/26/2005 3:15:20 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Gal. 4:16)
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To: fortheDeclaration

"One that your ancestors wrongly fought for."

LoL. MY ancestors were busy fighting the Brits for their land and kilts at the time.

That, and getting land in Oklahoma.

"That is all that he ever claimed he could do according to the Constitution."

I'm pretty sure he could have made a sound arguement against slavery given the wording of the Constitution. If he was as "anti-slavery" as you say anyway.


213 posted on 04/26/2005 3:26:41 PM PDT by MacDorcha (Where Rush dares not tread, there are the Freepers!)
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