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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (291966)	8/31/2002 11:39:38 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) of 769670

Lincoln achieved some early national attention when he defended and won a case against the Catholic Church (Spink v. Chiniquy 1855). Afterward, he was not embraced by any church and did not seek them out. He apparently was a deeply spiritual man and investigated many aspects of supreme beings and life after death, not all from orthodox sources. By the time of Gettysburg he was troubled with the idea that the Civil War was going so badly for both sides and wondered if there was a spiritual reason (It appeared God was not on his side, but neither was it on the side of the Confederacy). He had an epiphany that both the North and South had not attacked in full the true evil - slavery. Up until that time he fought the war for Union with slavery being an issue or a tool but not the goal of the war. Grant and Sherman accepted this premise and changed the way they insired their armies to victory. This theory is from Richard Current's biography "The Lincoln nobody knows". He has a lot of evidence about Lincons change of ideas from his writings. TP

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