I guess DiLorenzo thinks he is being clever, but it's in any general text on Lincoln or the war that his bedrock position was that slavery not be allowed to into the national territories. That was enough to set off the slave power, and the war came.
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I guess DiLorenzo thinks he is being clever, but it's in any general text on Lincoln or the war that his bedrock position was that slavery not be allowed to into the national territories. That was enough to set off the slave power, and the war came.
So are you saying that Lincoln did not say this in his First Inagural Address? Are you also saying that he designed the Emancipation Proclamation so that it freed slaves everywhere, not just in the South, even though his "bedrock position" was simply that it not be expanded?