http://www.answers.com/topic/abraham-lincoln-on-slavery
Learn to fly, blaquebyrd. The truth is not pretty and not as simple as you would like for it to be.
Perceptions are everything.
It was about states' rights more than about slavery. It worked out for the North, the states have fewer and fewer rights. It was never set up that way in the first place.
You still don't get it? I don't think a freed slave would care why he was freed, just that he was. Aren't you proud that you now live in a country that practices what it preaches? Aren't you proud to live under an American flag with citizens that believe so much in freedom that we will fight and die to defend to it? Perceptions be damned that my friend is reality.
"We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Law in nature tells us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude. Freedom only injures the slave. The innate stamp of inferiority is beyond the reach of change. You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables him to be." -- Jefferson Davis, March 1861
I guess not.