[dsc]

" More than any other person, he destroyed the institution of American slavery and the Southern aristocracy that was interwoven with it."

I guess, given the immense, unnecessary loss of life and the hagiography that passes for study of Lincoln, it's just too much to ask people to accept that the War of Northern Aggression was not only wrongfully prosecuted by a tyrannical government, but unnecessary.

I think Lincoln realized that at Gettysburg, but thanks to (what else) an actor, we'll never know.

[iowamark]

One side in the Civil War was virtually the only democracy in the world at that time; and the other was a slave empire conspiring with foreign dictators in an attempt to destroy that democracy.

And which is it you call a "tyrannical government?"

[WildHorseCrash]

I guess, given the immense, unnecessary loss of life and the hagiography that passes for study of Lincoln, it's just too much to ask people to accept that the War of Northern Aggression was not only wrongfully prosecuted by a tyrannical government, but unnecessary.

You are correct. The tyrannical government that took over the southern states and attempted to illegally form their own nation wrongfully prosecuted its war in order to maintain its slave holding. It was also unnecessary for those people in that government and those who owned those slaves understood that they were violating the very creed that the nation was founded upon. Thank God for President Lincoln and Thank God for General Sherman.

Oh, by the way, if anything, if not "The Civil War," should be called "the War of Southern Stupidity." Any government which would provoke a war facing a power with the industrial imbalance that existed at that time could call itself nothing but "stupid."