I’m well aware that Lincoln had no desire to free the slaves. But however one looks at it, slavery WAS the reason for the war. My main bone of contention is this nonsense they push about the right to secede and how they wanted to be ‘’independent’’ and the undeniable fact that underneath all of Southern heritage’’ nonsense is the fact that those Southern plutocrats deliberately provoked a war and fired the first shots in that war that took the lives of 660,000 Americans. Consider if the South had won, what do suppose America would look like today?
Abe was a pragmatist about the matter; Republican attempts to get slavery banned had failed. (Those wascally Democrats.)
Whether slaves were the immediate cause in the mind of the South for rebelling, they were a moral albatross around the South’s neck. They doomed the South to failure because God refused to smile upon that. The reconstructed South was morally stronger than before, because it had been forced to give up its slaves.
Good points. If they still want to continue the war, fine. Let them. Here we’re being told to forget 9/11 and move on but the South still wants to fight their war. Notice I said “Their war”