[billbears]

Don't mess with Walt now, he can cut and paste with the best of them. As has been pointed out to you before Walt, I will admit Southern politicians lied in the secession documents and took a bad rallying cry to gain the support of many Confederate citizens that might not have fought as willingly. It is easier for the average citizen to fight thinking that the national government is going to come on to your land and take a right away from you easier than the national government taking all your money over an extended period of time as the tariffs did.

However that still doesn't excuse the point that slavery was not brought up as a rallying cry in the north until '62 and therefore not an issue with lincoln until he had exhausted all of his other avenues of support. By that time, the general citizenry had lost interest and wanted the South just to go away, but you don't see much of that sentiment in the papers of the time because the Tyrant had suspended the 1st Amendment and shut down over 300 newspapers

[Ditto]

"...because the Tyrant had suspended the 1st Amendment and shut down over 300 newspapers

Source please. Everything I have see shows the Northern press beating Lincoln up pretty good until after Getteysburg. Even after that, some of the major papers in New Youk were Copperhead publications and they were never shut down. What's your source for him shutting down 300 papers?