The fact that he said stated his goal was to save the union whether slavery was abolished or not says otherwise,
really, because he said that to one person...
Here's let's play a Word Association game. I'll say the words that they didn't mean, you name the President.
"I am Not A Crook!"
"I did not trade arms for hostages"
"Read my Lips, No New Taxes"
"I did not have sex with that woman!"
"Mission Accomplished"
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor"...
So your whole argument here is that the Civil War wasn't about slavery because Lincoln PinkySwore to Horace Greeley that it wasn't... After which they no doubt did a Lizardman Freemason handshake.
I'm sorry,dude, I'm really trying to take you seriously, but it just ain't possible.
Okay, moving on...
Like all wars, it came down to money and the ones that stood the most to gain from it like the ones financing.
Exactly. The rich white people who were making a lot of money off of slavery started the war. That's the point. The dumb inbred southerner who got to catch musket balls and got their limbs sawn off with a rusty blade and no anesthetic, they didn't get anything out of it. But they fought for it anyway... that's what made them... stupid.
I know that you want to believe that you have some kind of moral high ground and gives you a reason to look down on southern states unless they vote "leftard"....but like everything else in your miserable little life, you are wrong and totally misguided.
There are many reasons to look down on the Southern States... This is just one of them. Thevery fact they still want to honor these people is the problem.
You see, any nation can be talked into the stupidity of war. But when you realize you were in the wrong, you don't honor the people who got you into this mess. It's why there are no statues to Hitler or his cronies in Germany today.
So that's what this is really about... not some obscure general like Pike who even history majors aren't familiar with. It's about people in the South just being unwilling to admit they were wrong.
You only care about "minorities" if they vote leftard....anyone else is an "Uncle Tom" to your ilk and that's just the way it is.
Well, yes, the 4% of blacks who vote Republican are pretty serious Uncle Toms. But in my lifetime (I don't belong to either political party) Democrats have done more for blacks than the GOP have. That's why they vote 96% Democratic.