“OTOH, if you favor States rights then Lincoln was one of the worst..”
Rights of the individual triumphs any States rights. The slavers of the Confederacy lost when they stuck to enslaving their fellow man and refuse to give freedom to the slaves. They deserve worse than what President Lincoln dished out. F em.
“The slavers of the Confederacy”
1. How many slavers were there in the Confederacy?
2. How many slavers were there in the Union?
3. How many slavers were black?
4. What started the New York draft riot?
5. Why did Lincoln hold the Emancipation Proclamation until January 1, 1863?
6. Why did the Emancipation Proclamation free only the slaves in the Confederacy, but not those up north?
7. Would you pay 600,000 lives to end slavery today, when you knew it would end in ten years anyway? How about if one of those lives was yours, or your son’s?
8. Of all the other slaveholding new world countries, how many had to have a civil war to end slavery?
9. What year did England end slavery?
10. What year did the United States invent the institution of slavery, which had never existed in the world before.