12-31-2004, 08:26 PM
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Easy Rider
Location: Moscow on the Ohio
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Originally Posted by sob
Purely for historical accuracy, I'd like to point out that the Emancipation Proclamation specifically exempted the North from having to free their slaves.
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I am afraid we are notoriously threadjacking but it is interesting to reflect on some of the statements made regarding the war.
From the following link: http://www.daveblackonline.com/take_...l_war_quiz.htm
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Abraham Lincoln:
Contrary to what most of us were taught in school, Abraham Lincoln did not launch the war in order to make blacks equal with whites. In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, he said, “I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races, and I have never said anything on the contrary.” Lincoln supported the Illinois law that prohibited the immigration of blacks into that state. And his career-long position on the race issue was colonization (i.e., deportation). He advocated sending every last black person to Haiti, Central America, Africa—anywhere but here. Clearly, he didn’t care about the Negro struggle for freedom. In a famous letter to Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, on August 22, 1862, he wrote, “My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.”
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General Ulysses S. Grant:
"If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission, and offer my sword to the other side." The speaker is Union General Ulysses S. Grant. If ever proof was needed to show that the war not fought to free the slaves, this is it.
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