gipper
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Where is this sworn obligation to Perpetual Union, other than Lincoln’s demented brain?The entire history of slavery is one of bloodshed. That is partly why it was ended. It also doesn't work in a capitalist system, and that aided its demise. There was further bloodshed in many places involved with terminating this horrible error. France, for example, ended slavery as a result of a bloody resolution only to re-instate it and have further bloodshed around the institution (remember Haiti?) and its end.
If we wish to ignore that attempting to abrogate the sworn obligation to Perpetual Union through violent rebellion took place, then we could blame the war on anything else. That treason did, however, take place and it necessitated all the violence that resulted. All guilt is on the perpetrators of that betrayal.