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To: nihil who wrote (58428)	2/8/2001 11:10:31 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The superiority of Lincoln's morality ("As I would not be a slave, neither would I be a master") Lincoln was doing nothing more than using the Golden Rule, a notorious Christian device. Slavery was eliminated from Europe through the influence of the Church. The exodus of the Hebrew tribes from Egyptian slavery being the operative story. It's only the little book of Philemon which seems indifferent to slavery. There are laws regulating slavery in Deuteronomy and Leviticus, and they don't include the perpetual slavery as practiced in America. To argue that Lincoln's War was about slavery ignores his own words. Abolition was the fuse that lit the conflict, but Lincoln launched his war to Preserve the Union. He said himself that he would make slavery permanent if it would preserve the Union. Try as they might, the Lincolnistas can't erase his words in their attempt to purify his motives, and make his mass bloodletting a Moral Crusade.