They were killed so that the Deep State "Establishment" might continue to rule an Empire. Oh, and they freed the slaves, not because they gave a rat's @SS about them, but because it would help prevent the South from getting revenge for the bloodshed perpetrated upon them by the New York/Washington DC power cartel. It would break the South's financial system, and it would weaken their political power greatly. *THAT* is why they decided to free the slaves.
Lincoln had no plans to free any slaves when he started the Civil War.
Oh, so Lincoln had Union troops fire on a supply ship and then a few months later fired on Ft.Sumter. I guess my history books got it all backwards. Thanks for clearing that up.
You sound like a communist.
No, he didn’t have any plans to free the slaves. But he was definetly anti-slavery and had been from a young age. He expressed this many times in his writings and speeches, you should read them.
The Republican Parties official platform for the election states in section 8;
8. That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom: That, as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that “no persons should be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law,” it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
It was clear that the final goal of the republican party was to get rid of slavery.