I've never claimed that we entered the war to free the slaves. We entered the war to preserve the union. The South seceded to preserve slavery though as evidenced by South Carolina's Declaration of Secession, therefore there cause was not just and they lost. A fringe benefit was that the Radical Republicans got there wish to end slavery in the process.
However, those who actually lived in the South know most Southerners didn't own slaves...and that most Southerners were fighting to defend their homes.
That's what makes it such a tragedy. 650,000 people died because a few Southern elitists wanted to continue the filthy lucre cash cow of slavery.
The North was the invading force, the South was in the defensive position.
What was that Fort Sumter thing about then? You guys thought you could whoop us, you couldn't.
They can't accept that so they have convinced themselves they had a higher cause than raping and pillaging the South.
So that's why we invaded to get a few rapes and pillages in? That's ridiculous.
If the South was the drag on the Union L-D says, the Union should have just cast the South loose...but they didn't.
The South tried to walk away from a contract with no terms of separation, that's rebellion. Ain't gonna happen.
If the war was to free the slaves, Lincoln would have freed them all at once...but he didn't.
Lincoln didn't have power over the few areas where there slaves left in the North like he did in the South due to the South's rebellion.
So I have come full circle and find I agree with you...they were meddlin'.....but please don't stir them up with the truth, they can't handle it.
You poor boys. You weren't able to keep getting that free money from slavery. I feel sorry for you.
I have never understood the intentions of anyone who believes everyone has to live like they do....or be forced to at the point of a gun. Sorta like I don't understand the Taliban. So I won't even pretend to understand Northern thinking. But I do understand northern results. And I know Sherman marched from Atlanta to the sea and stole or destroyed everything in a 100 mile swath. Now do you know how far it is from Atlanta to the coast? And can you imagine how wide 100 miles swath is? Again, I say, most Southerners were fighting in defense of their HOMES. If you cannot understand that, there is no hope for you.