Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-26295802-20160123161319/@comment-27097330-20160126023424

High Prince Imrahil wrote: ChazmanianDevil wrote: Oh god I hate that. When people talk about how the civil war had nothing to do with slavery... For goodness sakes. .. don't tell me you buy into that propaganda??

'''I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing allthe slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do notbelieve it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall domore whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. -Abraham Lincon''' Rhetoric. Persuasive speaking. His audience was whites full of prejudice so he appealed to them. He wanted to gain southern support as well. How can you say it wasn't about slavery! Southern states who joined the confederacy state that one of their main reasons for leaving the Union was slavery.