So,...you would fight to keep everyone enslaved to the government in order to free a few people from being enslaved by others.
A patently absurd statement.
In fact, Lincoln didn't have the best wishes of the black slave in mind. He only wanted control over the blacks so he could deport them out of the country.
His main objection to black slaves was that it kept blacks in the country.
No, as he stated clearly, his main objection to slavery was that it threatened the continued existence of the Union. Heck even the Confederates agreed on that point, only that they FAVORED disunion.
Anyways, Lincoln on slavery in his own words....
http://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/slavery.htmMy own favorite; August 1st, 1858...
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. ...IMHO damn near Biblical in its simple profundity.
Birdwatcher
