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[Big Blue]

I know what I was taught in school regarding the Civil War and Lincoln! I also know which side got to write that history and that it's a bunch of hoey. Slavery and preservation of the Union were always taught to be the main causes of the war, I've learned differently since then. When Lincoln finally got around to the Immancipation Proclamation, he only freed slaves that were NOT under the control of the North. The slaves in Northern held areas of W. Virginia and parts of New Orleans weren't included. If anyone is interested in a different version of history, I'd highly recommend reading the Kennedy brothers book, "The South Was Right". I was born in the north and have lived here all my life, but if this war would start anew tomorrow, I'd be moving south to fight for states rights and agianst the domination of this country by the federal government. I may have been born in the north, but my heart's with the south. You boys down in Tennessee make some room for me okay?
Don

[BrianMcCandliss]

I know what I was taught in school regarding the Civil War and Lincoln! I also know which side got to write that history and that it's a bunch of hoey. Slavery and preservation of the Union were always taught to be the main causes of the war

Which is half-right; slavery was used by Lincoln as a means to agitate north against south, so as to divide and conquer by turning one against the other; "preservation of the Union" was no different from Kruschev sending tanks into Soviet Georgia to do the same-- or Soviet gulags, prisons, mental hospitals, Siberian labor-centers, torture-chambers or other means to suppress dissension against the state.

What's missing from American schools, is any mention is made of any law authorizing Lincon's actions to do so.