[TNdandelion]

It's also a lot easier to act self righteous when you've been given the opportunity to sell your slaves gradually and recoup your financial losses prior to you state's abolition. And speaking of shackles, what is moral and righteous about forcing former slaves to live in deplorable ghettos or evicting them from the state altogether with threats of violence and heavy fines?

You see, the North's "righteousness" on this issue was born out of hatred. Hatred for the slaves themselves and then hatred for the South's success.

Don't forget, after the Feds "freed" the slaves in the South because they had so much love and compassion in their hearts for the poor and helpless...they targeted and mass killed many Native Americans.

Some people say that it's the winners of wars that get to write the history books. ;)

[manc]

nail on head

at the same time of the are there s another war against the indians . Lincoln had no problem killing them and taking their land did he?

Ask a southern man or woman back then why are you fighting and the answer is because you’re on my land

ask a yankee why are you marching down a 1000 miles to here
and fighting and their answer would have been to keep the union. After Lincolns suppose great speech ask the same yankee why he as fighting for the black man and most would have said I am not

Davis was a fool, he should have said we are getting rid of slavery(it was gong away anyway)and we’re sending millions of blacks up to MA, NY, IL

you can bet that Lincoln would have been dragged form the white house
Infact Lincoln was talking about sending them back to Africa