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This contortion of history is almost as bad as the 1619 project and cancel culture's interpretation of history. History is not to be interpreted it is to be taught as a historical fact. Fact is Lincoln tried concessions to the Southern Oligarchs, but it didn't work. The great debate wasn't necessarily about the southern states having slavery but about the New Territories that the South was hell bent on making slave states. Lincoln was not the only person in government and in the North that wanted America to abandon Slavery. Our Constitution demanded it and still does if you can read. Tremendous growth and fundamental economic differences between the North and South had as much to do with it as anything else. The north had manufacturing and industry established and the South was largely agrarian with large scale farming that depended on slave labor. They wanted slavery's extension into the new territories. In 1854 the us congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act which opened up all new territories to slavery by asserting the rule of popular sovereignty over congressional edict. The North was violently opposed and The Republican Party was formed based on the principal of opposing slavery's extension into the western territories. After the Supreme Court's decision in 1857 (Dred Scott) confirming slaveries legality hatred simmered until the abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 was the start of what would become the greatest disaster in American History. Over 600K people would die in the bloodiest war in our history. Lincoln's election in 1860 was the last straw and within three months the South seceded.
Who attacked who? In March 1861 confederate forces attacked Fort Sumpter in SC. The war was on. John Wilkes Booth sealed Reconstruction's fate by murdering the only person in American Government that wanted to forgive and forget. Lincoln would have made Reconstruction much easier and less painful. As it was it took almost a century to get over the effects of Reconstruction and in some ways we have not made it yet. People on this forum still complain about North vs South and relive the war as much as they can.
Leave our Honored dead in peace and understand that the only way America has survived as a Nation; a Union to this day is because we were not allowed to tear ourselves apart forming little island nations on the same soil. Take a clue from Europe's many wars over centuries that "a Nation divided cannot stand".