[Elihu Burritt]

You should thank Lincoln every day. Without the benefit of the civil war the South would be like South Africa today with 95% blacks, and whites fearing for their lives. Be grateful for the Great Emancipator.

Bravo!

So few people realize that the south was destroying itself morally and fiscally with it's devotion to slavery, and that the North actually put it out of it's misery to save itself.

Consider Afghanistan. There is no way on earth the Union could have beaten the south if the south had not known in it's heart of hearts that it was an abysmal failure overall and most certainly on the wrong path.

[southland]

Why did General Grant wait till the war was over to get rid of his slaves?

[rightofrush]

Another dumbass yankee who doesn't know anything not is his HS history text book.