Not meant as an insult but merely an observation of several posters who assume they know something yet won’t do the honest research to verify.
I offered a great resource in the book America’s Caesar I referenced. I can offer other resources (as can the huge bibliography in A.C.), but I think it’s the best starting point for people who seem to have their “facts” so twisted (and believe me, I was there too not long ago).
If random quotes are better than the quotes in their full context, then god help us.
Almost forgot, the full e-book is available free on the web (I just hate reading books online). http://www.americascaesar.com/
If you don’t find any answers there, I’d be happy to discuss further.
Thanks for the reference, I’ll check it out.
FWIW, Lincoln is no hero of mine. I sympathize with the feeling that he started to turn out government into what it is today (it was done by any one President but he sure helped). I don’t think this was intentional, I simply feel he was trying to do his best to keep the country together and he did the right thing.
There was no other major states right at issues other than slavery. The issue had been boiling for decades.
In fact it took North Carolina three or more votes before they actually did secede and they lost the most men of any state in the confederacy.
Hardly a great resource. "American Caeser" is no more an unbiased account of Abraham Lincoln and his record than Carl Sandburg's books are.
Thank you very much for that link!