RE: [tlug] [OT] US Civil War

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Glover
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:13 AM
>
> Lincoln used "slavery" as a similar rallying cry for those in the
> North too uneducated, lazy, or otherwise unwilling to examine the real
> motivations for the war, which were almost all economic, and not
> moral.
> 

And even then, he resisted using that card as
long as he could.  If nothing else, the president
speaking out against slavery in an official capacity
meant the impending end to that days way of life in
the north, and not just in the south.

-- 
Ken