DiogenesLamp from post #385: "Don't see any instructions regarding slavery anywhere in those orders.
Funny that.
If they were fighting a war for that reason, you would think they would mention it."
No, sorry, somehow I had missed post #385.
It's an astonishing argument, breathtaking in ignorance or dishonesty, can't tell which.
Or imagine which would be worse -- to be truly ignorant of Civil War events, or to know but misrepresent?
DegenerateLamp commonly presents a strawman that purports that the north engaged the south in a war against slavery. I know of no one who argues for the union who claims that. What we argue is that the union went to war in response to the south waging war against us. We fought to preserve the union.
It was the slavocracy-led south who went to war to preserve the Peculiar Institution.