That certainly sounds like a morally lofty motive, sufficiently believable to generate the money for his memorial, and the superficial understanding of generations of historians..
Before Lincoln initiated the invasion of Charleston and Pensacola in April of 1861, he remarked on several occasions that he could not let the tariff revenue stop.
Tariff revenue financed over 90% of the US Treasury, and the vast majority of that was underpinned by Southern exports.
The Southern states seceded peacefully. The only reason that Lincoln initiated war was the competition of Charleston and New Orleans shipping (plus the power of the Mississippi trade supply routes to the Midwest) to northern ports.
If you review the history, you will find that several Northern governors were visiting Lincoln's office just days before he ordered the Union fleets to the southern ports, and guaranteeing their militias and money to help New York, Boston, and Providence survive the free trade that was about to be established without them.
“Maintaining the union” was a euphemism for saving their financial structure......and a vast misrepresentation of the cause of death of 600,000.
The bigger the memorial, the greater the lie.
Your opinions are misguided, ill informed and frankly pretty creepy.
It would seem you've ignored the little issue of the firing on Ft. Sumter. That's what initiated the war, beyond the secession of the southern states, that is. And the South fired on Ft. Sumter simply because they didn't want the Union to maintain a facility that belonged to the Union.
If you review the history, you will find that several Northern governors were visiting Lincoln's office just days before he ordered the Union fleets to the southern ports, and guaranteeing their militias and money to help New York, Boston, and Providence survive the free trade that was about to be established without them.
Um, what were the southern states doing during this same time, as far as raising militias for the confederacy? They had all but surrounded Ft. Sumter with an army.
The bigger the memorial, the greater the lie.
The bigger the obfuscation, the greater the deceit.
And the lie is still perpetuated, to this very day, by none other than .gov!
Would like to read the two pages..