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To: one_less who wrote (788384)

6/7/2014 7:39:12 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 1577167

It does not matter what precipitated the decision to end it or how it was done. It had gone on way too long and Lincoln was right to make it an issue of the war. It does not matter that it did not start out a slavery issue.

Same with segregation. JFK wanted MLK to postpone his million man march, but MLK said no.

When such egregious things are taking place whatever it takes to end them is pretty much fine with me.

And I am sure it was fine with the slaves.

Sometimes it is just a matter of getting er done.

It is senseless to question how either one got done. It seemed the only way to do it at the time.

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Secession, states rights, tariffs, and taxes brought about the formation of Confederate States. The war was started to preserve the Union, not to end slavery. There was already a huge immigration of Irish due to the potato famine which had replaced the justification for owning slaves in the North, continued immigration was edging its influences further and further South.

Lincoln was not an abolitionist. There was no charge by Lincoln to abolish slavery at the start of the war. There were abolitionists in the period but he expected to bring about the eventual extinction of slavery by stopping its further expansion into any U.S. territory, and by proposing compensated emancipation (an offer Congress applied to Washington, D.C.) in his early presidency. He did not consider himself an abolitionist.

"It needed to be done as fast as possible, and I sure didn't see the south coming up with any other ideas!"

You don't know your own country's history very well. The thirteenth amendment outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, even though the civil war had effectively already ended the institution of slavery.