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I visited Lincoln's boyhood home yesterday, while traveling through southern Indiana. Truly God used this sinner to save (and I believe, like he did and Lee, to also CHASTEN) the United States of America. Ever pondered what North America (let alone the world...) would look like now if the South would have won?

I am the proud great-grandson of a Confederate officer, and I'm sure he personally fought for honorable reasons... but I find it sad that (still) so many southerners like to insist slavery was not the major underlying issue behind the powers that brought on the War Between the States.

Ironically, and no doubt mystifyingly to you southern partisans, while I greatly admire Lincoln...of his generation only Robert E. Lee surpasses him in my respect.

I'm glad marron is bringing some sensible clear light to the issue, maybe through the smoke of the historical battlefield, some of the South, like me, will see the light...

Thanks for your kind remark.

My ancestors also fought for the South. They were also minor slave-holders. They apparently lost most everything, and then migrated to Texas where they became, mostly, cowboys.

It mystifies me that people who believe in liberty, and free economies, are still trying to defend a slave economy, still complaining about the war that ended it.

I feel no guilt about my ancestors, they were men of their time, and salt of the earth. They grew up in a culture that tolerated, or even celebrated, slavery. Prior to the civil war, they may never have questioned it. I know from my research that they were active church members, it is likely that they treated their workers well, but it didn't occur to them to reject the system that fed them.

This is something that I have drawn from our history. The greatest evils are not committed by evil people. The evil ones we can all recognize, and deal with. The greatest evil is committed by otherwise good people, who don't know better, or are afraid to act on their conscience.

i cannot for the life of me understand why the scion of a CSA officer would even consider lincoln, the tyrant, spiller of thousands of gallons of INNOCENT blood, war criminal and arch politician HUMAN, much less someone to admire.

for a free dixie,sw