re: #624 jsulman

From what I’ve read Lincoln was not an abolitionist. At the time of his election the only political move against slavery he wanted to take was to prevent new states from becoming slave states. I’m not an expert on this time period but that is what I remember reading?

The hot heads of the south believed he was and therefor succeeded from the union.

See this site for more info.
[Link: www.historynow.org…]

If Lincoln was around today, he would stand for pretty much every thing the left despises. The only reason he got involved in the Civil War was preservation of the Union, it had nothing to do with freeing slaves. He imprisoned those who disagreed with him and suspended habeus corpus. Truly more despicable than Bush could ever be.