[Ditto]

...but, unfortunately, Lincoln preferred a more violent solution.

Preserving the Union. How violent.

[cowboyway]

Preserving the Union.

Exactly. Not about slavery, as advertised.

How violent.

600,000 plus dead. Thousands of women, children and the elderly left homeless and destitute. Economic ruin. Thousands of square miles ruined. 11 states under military occupation and subject to the exploitation of human vultures swooping down from the north. The Constitution ignored and a powerful, centralized federal government ruling the people.

And all for the political ambitions of disHonest Abe.

Ho-hum, just another walk in the park for a damnyankee.