re: History Topic: Did R.E. Lee Betray His Countrymen?

Just stop! You are embarrassing yourself. Take a few days off of the board and dig real deep into The Missouri Compromise and The Kansas-Nebraska Act. Study up on the Nullification crisis during the Jackson Administration. Then thoroughly review the "black laws" enacted in Northern States prior to the war.....particularly those in Lincolns home State of Illinois which were the worst. If you are intellectually honest, you will comprehend some truths you were never taught regarding the war. Northern States did not give two shits about the plight of the black race. They despised them more so than Southerners who at least accorded them degrees of value as they were lifetime investments. The Northern States passed all sorts of laws to limit the number of blacks in the North. They purposely made it difficult, if not almost impossible, for blacks to function as freedmen in the region. Industrialists in the North and their complicit congressmen had one goal. That was the economic crippling and subsequent loss of political power of the South. The only way to achieve that was by ending slavery.

Had it not been for the tens of thousands of white immigrants who entered the country via the Northern States for three decades leading up to the war....slavery would not have been the central point because without those immigrants, slavery would have still been in practice in the North. The only reason it was abolished was because their were tens of thousands of white immigrants demanding WAGE PAYING jobs.

People like you who believe that their was some magnaminous moral group think that took place in the North and it was a conflict of good vs evil are the lowest common denominator in discussions on the subject.