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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   On 9/2/2021 8:09 AM, David Hartung wrote:   
   > On 9/2/21 9:54 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >> On 9/2/2021 7:48 AM, David Hartung wrote:   
   >>> On 9/2/21 9:34 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >>>> On 9/2/2021 7:23 AM, David Hartung wrote:   
   >>>>> On 9/2/21 9:13 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 9/2/2021 5:11 AM, David Hartung wrote:   
   >>>>>>> I am not generally a fan of Snopes, but in this case what they write   
   >>>>>>> squares is in context and has the ring of truth. Robert E Lee was far   
   >>>>>>> from perfect, and his understanding on black rights would rightly be   
   >>>>>>> condemned today, but in his day, they would have been considered   
   radical.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Slavery was the reason for secession and the war.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Funny, I wasn't talking about the cause of the war,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It's always at the root of any discussion of the war.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not when it comes to why some men chose to fight for the confederacy rather   
   >>> than for the union.   
   >>   
   >> Always.   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Slavery was not Lincoln's primary reason for fighting.   
   >>   
   >> It was the south's reason for seceding and fighting.  Anything else   
   offered as   
   >> a reason is a smokescreen.  It was about slavery.   
   >   
   > And had Lincoln been able to preserve the Union by protecting slavery, he   
   would   
   > have.   
      
   That, of course, was not possible, as Lincoln quickly determined.   
      
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