Bootney Lee Farnsworth
Diamond Member
I don't disagree.Words are words. I care about actions. It’s like how after gay marriage was legalized with Obama’s support and more protections for gay people were enacted than by any other President, conservatives tried to say he was actually anti-gay because of something he said years and years ago. And how under Trump, conservatives say he supports gay people despite siding 100% of the time against them.
Lincoln's actions were to preserve the Union only...until the people grew weary of war and wanted to let the South go.
Nobody can say the war started because one side wanted to stop slavery and the other side wanted to continue it. The end of slavery was not even up for debate.
The WAR started because one side wanted to leave the Union, and the other side demanded that they remain. Slavery was the underlying issue, but not the ACTUAL reason for war.
So, Lincoln did not go to war to end slavery, and Lee did not go to war to defend it.
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