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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (467633)9/30/2003 1:42:33 PM
From: Wayners  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Slavery was clearly wrong, but you have to realize that a majority abolitionist North is a fictional creation of historical revisionists. The war was faught over big government/Federalism and taxes/confiscation of property to satisfy big taxes. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed, because Lincoln thought it might actually help win the war by causing great economic disruption in the South, not necessarily because he was very anti-slavery. I do think there is plenty of evidence of Lincoln being anti-slavery, but not to the point of action unless that action was also poltically favorable to his own position. When the Emancipation was signed shortly after Gettysburg, the time was right politically to help win the war. If politics were not a factor in the timing the Emancipation Proclomation would have been issued in 1861, not in 1863.
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