alt.war.civil.usa

"Bert" writes:

> "Hugh Lawson" wrote in message
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>
> > I said that the Union determination to destroy the Confederacy was a
> > cause of the war. And it was a cause of the war.
>
> No, you are not catching the distinction here. I am saying you are starting
> with a flawed premise. Aside from the logical problems with your claim...
> Lincoln did not even recognize the confederacy as a government to be dealt
> with, let alone destroyed, that early in the game.
> It was an illegal
> political movement that he felt he had a chance to hold in check if he held
> on to a moderate, nonviolent policy. If you actually read about Lincoln's
> deliberate decision-making in the weeks immediately before and after his
> inauguration, you'd see that is accurate. Your caricature of him as steely
> Old Abe out to crush the South is simplistic and uninformed.

Humbug and attitudinizing.

I didn't say anything aabout Old Abe intending to crush "the South". I
said he wanted the destruction of the CSA.

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Hugh Lawson
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