[thecavemaster]

You are going to think w/e you think. No matter what the facts say.

So are you saying the civil war was fought over slavery?

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free-- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve." A. Lincoln, Dec. 1, 1862, State of Union address to Congress.

The Civil War for Lincoln, I think, was an anguishing decision to preserve the Union. These were hot-headed times. Just as today, individual men and women had to make concessions to the Party Platform to get nominated. Lincoln, the man, hated slavery. Lincoln the politican was often a pragmatist. Your facts are colored by hatred of whoever you deem the enemy to be.