[#3Fan]

It's also easier to be wealthy if you free all the slaves in the South and don't free the ones in the North, as your Mr. Lincoln did. Anyone can win a historical argument if they omit facts.

Lincoln had more power in the South due to the rebellion. We ended slavery up here soon after. If the North wasn't moving away from slavery prior to the Civil War as you seem to think, why did South Carolina's Declaration of Secession say that they were seceding to preserve slavery?

[JD86]

Lincoln had more power in the South due to the rebellion. Another distinction without a difference. Lincoln freed the slaves in the South by Executive Order...since he thought he was the President of the whole United States, he could just as easily have freed the slaves in the North. He didn't because it was not a matter of principle as you Northerners like to claim, it was a matter of economics, for both the North and the South. And it was Lincoln's way of punishing the South.