Posted: 26 April 2017 at 6:38am | IP Logged | 11
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"Defending their way life"? Ugh.•• People who say things like that are ignoring two things: first, how vile and corrupt that "way of life" was, and second that said "way of life" was in no way threatened. Lincoln was not an abolitionist at first. He only wanted to contain slavery, not outlaw it. Like most Northern intellectuals he understood that the "institution" of slavery was doomed simply by the natural changes occurring in the World. A society that depended on human bondage could not survive in the Machine Age. It was just a matter of time.* Trouble came when the Southern states insisted on expanding slavery into the western territories, claiming "state's right," and somehow ignoring the very important fact that such rights END at state borders. One cannot commit a crime in Kentucky and defend oneself by saying it's legal in Louisiana! If the slave-holding states had contented themselves with keeping their slaves only within their own borders, the Civil War need not have happened, and those same states would most likely have been able to seek aid from Washington as their economies began to crumble. _____________________ * Sadly, the general contempt for the Black Race prevented most people from thinking any amount of time was too long -- most people who weren't Black, that is.
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