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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (440108)	8/8/2003 4:00:14 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) of 769670

The Confederates fought for states' rights, all right. They fought for states rights to maintain slavery within their borders. Lincoln insisted that he did not wish to end slavery where it existed. He recognized a Constitutional right to slavery in areas of Constitutional jurisdiction. He recognized no such rights in unsettled future American lands. He therefore insisted that where the Constitution allowed slavery, slavery could exist, but future lands would be free. It was not a novel idea. Read Lincoln's Cooper Union Address. Lincoln lays out a stunningly brilliant, terribly simple and elegant argument that logically compels the reader to confront the fact that the authority to limit slavery's expansion was exercised several generations earlier by the Founders themselves and that as President, George Washington himself wielded such authority. But the Confederates demanded the right to expand slavery despite this. Their intent was to find new undepleted soils for their rather abusive cotton crops, as well as to employ slaves in western gold mines and potential factories.

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