[DiogenesLamp]

Lincoln’s own example is instructive. He regarded slavery as “a vast moral evil.” “Slavery is wrong,” he said, and “one cannot say that people have a right to do wrong” — yet he did not try to ban it in the South. He instead fought unflinchingly against its extension into the western territories and states. He fought the battle that could be won, not the one he was sure to lose.

I love it when people try to explain Lincoln's actions on slavery in moral terms. They clearly do not know that Lincoln and his Republicans voted for a permanent slavery amendment to be added to the US Constitution.

This amendment would have allowed states to chose slavery if they wanted it, and it would therefore have allowed it to be expanded beyond just the existing Southern states.

Most people don't know that Lincoln supported a pro-slavery amendment to the US Constitution, because they have been taught all their lives that the civil war was about slavery.

Well it wasn't. It was about money, and the "Corwin Amendment" pretty much proves it.

[griswold3]

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