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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (347892)	1/25/2003 8:23:29 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (5) of 769670

The war was at its essence about slavery Somebody should have told Lincoln this, then. He thought it was about preservation of the Union, until about halfway through the hostilities when he decided to use abolition as a way to gain new recruits. (And BTW, when the Union troops learned of this change in the intent of the war, thousands deserted, saying in essence, that they had not signed up to free the slaves). <article> cyberlearning-world.com Lincoln once wrote,"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery." (Frazier, 138.) Lincoln's war aim was to preserve the Union not necessarily by ending slavery or keeping slavery. The North tried to drag the south into the Union but this was not easily done. As the war continued, Lincoln became more of an abolitionist. Lincoln stated that he would save the Union while freeing no slaves, some slaves, or all slaves. The Union was his first priority. <end of article> The War Between The States was far too large and complex of an affair to fit into neat categorizations.

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