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<blockquote data-quote="Frood" data-source="post: 688856" data-attributes="member: 37">The balance and rights of both Federal and State. Abraham Lincoln broke it for made up reasons later recorded in Northern history books (books my school lessons were based on erroneously). If you want to disagree with me, fine...&nbsp; so be it....but read the actual &quot;Emancipation Proclamation&quot; and then try to tell me I'm wrong. He freed the slaves of his perceived enemy during an economic war but not those in the border states above the Mason Dixon Line. He imprisoned journalists, teachers, and dissidents for speaking out and reporting the truth on the ground. And this was after numerous Southern delegations were sent to DC initially and abruptly refused the right to air their grievances in accordance to the founding documents. The South got stitched up because they had temperate winters, great yields, ample workers (not just slaves, because most landowners couldn't justify the expense and upkeep)....The moment the South started looking for foreign markets to process their stuff instead of the industrialised North, the South became a threat to the North's economics. The War of 1812 was long over and Britain had no stomach for a redo. Yet the North tried to blockade all economic trade between the South and Britain. Yeah, nah.... Abraham Lincoln was an evil lying prick who got domestically abused by his pint sized bipolar wife Lily... I mean Mary Todd....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frood, post: 688856, member: 37"] The balance and rights of both Federal and State. Abraham Lincoln broke it for made up reasons later recorded in Northern history books (books my school lessons were based on erroneously). If you want to disagree with me, fine... so be it. ...but read the actual "Emancipation Proclamation" and then try to tell me I'm wrong. He freed the slaves of his perceived enemy during an economic war but not those in the border states above the Mason Dixon Line. He imprisoned journalists, teachers, and dissidents for speaking out and reporting the truth on the ground. And this was after numerous Southern delegations were sent to DC initially and abruptly refused the right to air their grievances in accordance to the founding documents. The South got stitched up because they had temperate winters, great yields, ample workers (not just slaves, because most landowners couldn't justify the expense and upkeep).... The moment the South started looking for foreign markets to process their stuff instead of the industrialised North, the South became a threat to the North's economics. The War of 1812 was long over and Britain had no stomach for a redo. Yet the North tried to blockade all economic trade between the South and Britain. Yeah, nah.... Abraham Lincoln was an evil lying prick who got domestically abused by his pint sized bipolar wife Lily... I mean Mary Todd.... [/QUOTE]

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