re: Robert E. Lee has been misrepresented by regressive "historians"

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Perhaps you should read the Republican Party's original platform and Lincoln's views on the expansion of slavery into the western territories first.

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Know it well, however I'm not speaking of expansion, rather the legal act of slavery as it stood prior to the start of the war. We all know that Lincoln would have gladly continued the practice of slavery if it would have kept the country from going to war. He also knew it was destined to play out on its own in a matter of decades if not years.