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Forum Lurker | BS: Why are you for the war? (86* d) | RE: BS: Why are you for the war? | 16 Apr 03 |
TIA-The right to determine their own internal economic affairs, according to the majority of southern political thinkers. The war was not begun to force the South to abolish slavery, but to keep it in the Union. Lincoln said that if it were necessary to keep slavery in order to preserve the Union, he would have done so, but he felt that it was necessary to eliminate for the good of the country. The rights of non-whites was not the primary issue. |