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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (440119)	8/8/2003 4:30:44 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Do I hear the pitter patter of little feet backpeddling? Wise of you. For the South, as I previously said, the issue was slavery. They insisted they be allowed to expand slavery westward; Lincoln absolutely opposed that. They seceded; Lincoln denied they had the right to secede and also claimed rights to all US federal property in the Confederacy. That was also unacceptable to the South. The Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter. Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and the war was on. Message 19192566 speaker.house.gov And for some in the North, such as the abolitionists, the war was all about slavery. But that was not true of Lincoln and it was not true of a significant fraction of Northerners. The Emancipation Proclamation was hardly welcomed with universal cries of joy in the the North. Desertions from the Union Army rose following it and enlistments dropped. The lower economic classes in the North saw freed slaves as competition and resented the proclamation. That proclamation was one of the grievances that incited rioting in NYC in mid-1863. Those riots were so bad that the Union Army that had fought at Gettyusburg was marched straight from there to NYC to put them down.