[central_va]

The left wants me to pretend boys are girls, and the confederacy amen corner wants me to pretend the confederacy wasn't about preserving slavery.

Lincoln stated the goal of the war was not about slavery at all. He made that very clear.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

To repeat, President Lincoln had to deal with the fact that not everyone in the North was with the cause. Frederick Douglas explained it better than I ever could so I'll refer to his writings.

14 paragraphs down, if you want to skip to the point at hand.

Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln Frederick Douglass | April 14, 1876

[DoodleDawg]

Lincoln stated the goal of the war was not about slavery at all. He made that very clear.

He wasn't speaking for the Confederacy.