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Politics : War
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To: PatiBob who wrote (25)12/28/2000 9:16:25 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 23908
 
From the Northern perspective, initially at least legally it was just a property dispute:

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But slavery underlay all all the way through. It was the reason a significant fraction of the North was willing to fight initially and that fraction just kept growing. Lincoln was (possibly) behind the populace in this.

And there was significant opposition to freeing the slaves in the North. Irish (and lower class) New York City residents rioted when Lincoln started a draft in 1863. Partly out of opposition to being drafted, but also because they dreaded the economic competition freed slaves would pose to them.
The troops who fought at Gettysburg were marched straight to NYC to put down those riots when the battle was over.
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