- Joined
- Jan 28, 2013
- Messages
- 94,823
- Reaction score
- 28,342
- Location
- Williamsburg, Virginia
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Independent
true, but if the North's entire economy was dependent on slavery there wouldn't have been a civil war either. One side wasn't "better" than the other, it was simply not economically important to them.
and the North did not go to war to free the slaves, which someone might assume from your statement. If the war had ended and the South had kept their slaves, the north still would have declared victory. wouldn't you agree?
I'm saying this isn't the morality play the libtards around here are trying to frame it to be. The north acted in their best interest, so did the south, free slaves or no free slaves. If anything it's the RELIGIOUS sect of society which should receive the most praise for ending slavery, because they were the first ones and the most ardent supporters of freeing slaves. Ironic, since the liberals of today can't STAND religious people and refuse to give them credit for a damn thing. but liberal thinking is full of ironies I have found.
There were some in the North who went to war to free the slaves. Some went to war only to save the Union. Lincoln focused on the latter in the early phase because that created the most support for the war. As Northern sentiments were hardened by fighting, Lincoln led the shifting sentiment to a full anti-slavery position.