[marron]

paper money? did I forget paper money?

Lincoln introduced paper money; the confederacy held humans in bondage.

[babyface00]

the confederacy held humans in bondage

Are you saying, that because some people in the Confederacy owned slaved (what was it, 15% of them?), that nothing Lincoln did is inexcusable?

Slavery was both legal, and practiced in all of the United States. I'm not defending the institution, but its not like the North's hands weren't just as bloody as the South's on this matter.

[rdb3]

So, holding humans in bondage is no big deal to you?

[El Gato]

the confederacy held humans in bondage.

Which was provided for by the Constitution in at least a couple of places. Strictly speaking the Confederacy allowed humans to be held in bondage, it held none itself. The federal government however did hold the majority of the people of the states which wished to seceed in a sort of bondage, didn't it?