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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (440167)8/8/2003 4:59:34 PM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
I'm really not sure of your point. I suppose you are trying to claim that the North was largely against Lincoln's posture on slavery. That is just not true. A good number of Northerners didn't care about or even disliked Emancipation; but many vigorously supported the idea. So then how do we explain the Northern dissent? Between the years 1810-1828 the north's population exploded due to the jobs its new factories presented to the country. Contrariwise, the South's population significantly decreased. There is your answer. Many Southerners moved north to work in the factories, and their political affinities remained with the South.

Additionally, poor Irish and others did indeed see a potential threat from cheap black labor and so felt threatened by blacks. Northern politicians used this enmity for their own purposes. But to imply Lincoln was isolated 'from his own people' is not accurate. Else, he would not possibly have been re-elected for a second term.
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