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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (347960)	1/26/2003 3:11:41 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) of 769670

No one forgot to tell Lincoln anything. The fact is, Lincoln himself said the war was about slavery. But he was not interested in fighting FOR the end of slavery. He was certainly interested in saving the Union. He was not convinced to end slavery. He had always been against it since a young man. He simply wished to end it slowly - by hindering its expansion. But he was always of the opinion that 'this nation cannot survive as two: one slave, one free.' As for the Northern riots, you must remember that anti-slavery Republican Party was brand new. That meant that the North was heavily populated by Democrats, very many of whom sympathized with the South. Whether the 13 states would have formed Union had they known they could not break it is moot. It is no argument against secession because Article I section X of the Union document, the Constitution, clearly states no state can form alliance with another. And since the Constitution was then and is now a legal contract, requiring ratification of parties to be formed, it requires proper ratification to be broken. That is the nature of contracts.

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