(August 13, 2015 at 2:26 pm)Drich Wrote: Nope...
Did you even read the OP?
I clearly state that the southern states wanted keep slavery. That the went to war and die to keep slavery. My objection was the moral high ground this colonel was trying to take. Several times in the video he states that the union ended slavery because of it moral implications. My whole post disproves that fact.
Lincoln s letter spelling out that if he could end the war and not set slaves free, he would do that. He even tried, but ultimately surrendered to the idea that only by freeing the slaves in JUST THE CONFEDERATE STATES he would being to reunite the country, so he did that.
Again if freeing the slaves was a moral issue then why not free all slaves under the emancipation proclamation?
No this war was fought for control of not only slaves (the north wanted to consolidate and tax slave owners in the states, and slave owners wanted to move out west to the territories where their was no tax) but the political power To make and enforce such changes
I thought you would find my links interesting. Yes, I read your OP
