[SAMWolf]

Hi Stand Watie. groing up in Illinois we were taught to odolize Lincoln. As I got older and started reading more about history my opinion of him changed.

He may have "saved" the Union but at what price, and not just in lives, but in what the Federal government has become and how the States were stripped of their powers.

As for "ending" Slavery, don't make me laugh, it was a great political ploy, the Emancipation Proclamation freed no one and Lincoln didn't really care whether the slaves were freed or not.

[stand watie]

well said.

in point of fact, lincoln couldn't have cared less if the slaves were EVER freed.

he said so himself.

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