----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 6:08 PM Subject: Re: Fw: [MO-CW] Re: MO-CW-D Digest V03 #50 > Lincoln attempted to free slaves, but the states that elected to attempt to > secede didn't recognize his authority. He couldn't finish because he was > assassinated. Methinks you are still trying to defend the practice. When Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, it was directed at the states in rebellion, it did not free the slaves in states that stayed out of the conflict or were loyal to the Union. It was issued to cause unrest in the Confederacy. In fact, Lincoln supported the idea of shipping emancipated slaves out of he Country. He actually told Douglas that he felt that Blacks & Whites could not live together. Money & greed has always been the defining factors that ultimately are behind every war. If one looks hard enough, they will see that the "powers that be" that were running the show during any historical period, were waging war for financial gain. This argument can continue & has throughout the ages, so my statements here can be taken with a grain of salt or applauded. Common sense has always taken a back seat to political correctness. Lincoln was a great man to some, a tyrant to others. Beheading the "Great Messiah" http://www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster21.html And The Beat Goes On http://www.patshannan.bizland.com/musingsjuneone.html There are right ways & wrong ways. Taking the Confederate flag down from the Confederate Cemetery was simply wrong. The motivation was strictly a political one & had nothing to do with the Congressman or Governor's feelings of past transgressions. Desoto Joe/The Record Man