re: Abraham Lincoln radically changed the nature of the Civil War on this day 161 years ago

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i get the motivation for the south but can't criticize Lincoln by saying "slavery was on its way out" while defending the south. The same South had slavery as a right in their Constitution.

Slavery as a practice is hypocritical to the principles the USA was founded on. That cancer should have never been allowed to fester

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I meant this to say that slavery being on the way out isn't a defense to let it run it's course. They were too far away from it running it's course to let it continue.