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Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito
Yeah, which is what people don't understand. Slavery in it's self, he didn't care one way or another.
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Again, I think this is an overstatement. He said very clearly in the "
Peoria Speech" (1854, concering the repeal of the Missouri Compromise) that slavery was a "monstrous injustice." He was an abolitionist, albeit an abolitionist who valued political expediency.
He did care one way or the other. It's just that once secession and war were realities, he cared much more about preserving the Union, and everything else was viewed through the lens of whether it would hasten or delay, secure or end any chance of the preservation of the Union.
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