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Re: How Lincoln Created Two New States for Partisan Political Advantage

By: ribit in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Mon, 14 Dec 20 9:46 PM | 32 view(s)
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...they are quite good at spiking the ball short of the end zone though.




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Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!

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Re: How Lincoln Created Two New States for Partisan Political Advantage
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Mon, 14 Dec 20 7:54 PM 		Msg. 09855 of 60008

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Re: “The whole thing could have been avoided IF the Southern states would have worked with the non slave states to come up with a phaseo out plan for slavery.”I agree with you that it'd get boring if we didn't sometimes disagree. Healthy debate is what makes discussions fun! I love it. Too bad the clo-clones don't understand that. You'll notice that they rarely discuss anything. They do and say as they're told. What's to discuss?

All I'll say about my excerpt from your last post is that the Civil War was *not* fought over slavery. Lincoln belonged to the anti-slavery Republicans but that was just the last straw for Southerners. For the first two years of his administration, he had no intention of freeing the slaves.

The war was about Northern oppression of the weaker, agrarian South. A plan for eradicating slavery would not have changed the North's behavior. The South was probably right to think that such a plan would have been massively destructive to its economy. (Of course, war took destruction to a whole 'nother level, but no one thought that was how it would turn out.)

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