re: #425 Vicious Babushka

No, Lincoln was concerned that Secession would destroy democracy. Slavery did not become an issue until later on in the war.

That was Lincoln’s excuse, he scrambled to come up with that fig leaf to avoid having to convince an overwhelmingly racist culture and himself that they were fighting to free enslaved black people. Thank God he was able to convince the Union to go along with the war, but absent ending slavery I’m not sure the price paid would have been worth it.