[geeks] I just saw...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>Date: 2006/11/11 Sat PM 05:33:35 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] I just saw...

>On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>
>> As for Lincon, have you ever read the emacipation proclimation? He freed
>> the slaves in "the states in rebelion", over which he had no control.
>
>Sort of like all the times President Lincoln said "If I could preserve
>the Union without freeing a single slave, I would gladly do so"?

How many lives would have been saved if it were possible? Granted, the vast majority of them were white, but they still count, don't they?

As I understand it, he went to war out of necessity, not out of any personal desire of his...

Lionel