[4CJ]

Since the Clinton administration, and thanks to a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Chicago, the “official” cause of The War was slavery. All national parks associated with The War are now required to tell visitors this story line.

Despite the fact that Lincoln championed the Corwin Amendment guaranteeing permanent slavery, stated that no invasion would occur as long as the South paid the tariff, and welcomed any seceding state back into the union as a slave state if it simply rejoined the union. It was never about slavery, it was about the revenues.

I think it was your book that noted that all of the captured bales of cotton were quickly sent North, but captured/freed slaves were abandoned. Oh the humanity <sarcasm>

Kudos to you sir.

[Colt .45]

How true! How true! Lincoln was the consummate politician, he could've taught Nero a thing or two.

Lincoln fiddled while the South burned.