Lincoln's entire career from his very first political speech revolved around instituting a national bank, a tariff system, and industrial subsidies. It was known as the American System.
Seriously, read up on it.
I will, thanks, tho it would prob'ly be boring as all get out.
So, was he genuinely anti-slavery, or was he merely interested in breaking the South so that he could institute his system? His statements on blacks and his intention to deport them to the wilds of Africa seems to indicate t hat he wasn't altruistically interested in the welfare of the black man.
More'n a few people of all intentions had long believed Blacks and Whites could never coexist, so Lincoln's intended deportations don't tell us much.
Even if that had been his stated intention all along I'd STILL take up arms on the Union side. Chattel slavery alone was toxic, and poisoned all it touched.
Birdwatcher
