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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (399263)	2/10/2019 1:58:16 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541648

>> Thinking evolves; voter registration rolls don't. Lincoln will always be an R. Klanguy Wilson will always be a D. You are right. But one can reasonably claim that Dems today are closer to the spirit of Lincoln's platform now than Reps are. But you can't claim Lincoln as a Democrat - you could claim him as a "progressive", esp. in the context of his time. >> A very progressive person (an Abolitionist) would have freed all the slaves, not just the ones owned by the other side About that - actually, he did not want them freed in the South either. I posted a very good article on how slavery finally ended in the US. And it was more because of Buttler than Lincoln. An extremely shortened version is that Buttler defied orders from Lincoln to return the slaves because he realized that most of his troops were abolitionists and he would have hell on his hands if he listened to Lincoln. So he formulated the issue as a military stratagem by essentially saying that depriving the South of its slaves will put resource pressure on them and help with the victory.