Professor DiLorenzo's greatest contribution is to show the real reasons for which Lincoln went to war. Abolishing slavery was not one of them. Lincoln was determined to destroy the Southern states in order to remove the constraints that Southern senators and congressmen, standing in the Jeffersonian tradition, placed in the way of centralized federal power, high tariffs, and subsidies to Northern industries.
Makes me sick really. And Jefferson is turning over in his grave
For truth and for Dixie
18 posted on 03/21/2002 11:01:17 AM PST by billbears