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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (439927)	8/8/2003 11:35:22 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Dear Stooopid, The educated portion of the population- -which obviously excludes you- -recognizes that as a well known quote of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America. Sincerely, LL

To: TigerPaw who wrote (439927)	8/8/2003 3:49:45 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This is precisely correct. The issue was not the freeing of any slave. The issue causing the war was over the expansion of slavery. Lincoln saw slavery as morally reprehensible and as a young politician spoke several times against it on moral grounds. But his major concern regarding the Peculiar Institution was political. He did not see a long life for a free America that existed as two countries: "one slave, the other free." He was convinced that slavery would eventually overtake all of America and that this would effectively end the American Dream as the Land of the Free. Therefore, he determined to allow slavery to remain where it existed in 1860 but disallow its western expansion. The South would hear of no such thing and attempted to break Union over it.