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Posted by Nilet on Thu Dec 6 22:47:52 2018, in response to Re: Boycott (was:Tour of funeral train), posted by JayZeeBMT on Thu Dec 6 18:51:17 2018. I'm pretty sure Lincoln would have been happy to allow slavery in order to restore the Union if such an option were ever realistic. It wasn't, of course— the south objected to Lincoln not because he was seriously pushing to abolish slavery, but because the fact that he was elected without a single slaver's vote was in and of itself an unforgivable offense to them. As such, they seceded in the name of maintaining slavery, and once they did, the only way to bring them back was by force— and since they seceded and thus gave up their representation in the Union government, the political pressure to abolish slavery (on paper, if not in practice) became insurmountable. |
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