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RE: [DL] Freeing the Slaves

At 09:40 PM 8/1/2002, Mr. Mark Chiddicks wrote:
>Thats splitting hairs, as you well know. Lincoln didn't attack the 
>Confederacy because he was bored, he did it because it seceded.

         Far from it. The question of whether States can leave the Union 
peacefully (for any reason) is the key argument in The War. The fact that 
Lincoln believed they could not and settled the issue with force gives us 
our current understanding of the issue. Further, the fact that Lincoln 
would've acted as he did if the South had
seceded because they didn't like his hat shows this issue's primacy, and 
empasizes that without Lincoln, there is no War.

Deo Vindice,
Mr. Christopher L. McGlothlin, M.Ed.

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