Lincoln was not the saint everyone portrays, from a conservative viewpoint.
The war was about STATES RIGHTS more than it was about Slavery. Slavery was just the issue.
Imagine if, instead of telling you that you could not own slaves, the government told you that you had to buy health insurance.
let me rephrase that- instead of telling you what you could NOT buy (slaves) they told you what you HAD TO buy (health insurance)
True. When the Wall Street gang realized that the South would cut deals with foreign governments, that’s when they told Lincoln to be against secession. He was a puppet of northern business and banking interests. Slavery was an afterthought. Professional politicians are all by definition BOUGHT. Only term limits can begin to sure the total corruption of our political system.