>>16329
>>16309
>he conquered the south by sacrificing his own countrymen
So, he should have allowed the European powers to step in and completely fund the South's secession, thereby dividing the country even further and allowing for some united effort from the East (Europe) to come in and crush the now divided U.S.? You do know that, back in the 1830's, the various European powers all universally declared that the continued existence of the United States, in any form, was a direct threat to their control, right?
>and used muh slaves as an excuse
That never happened.
The war was
never about slavery. That is a modern myth. Even Lincoln, in the first half of the war, stated on numerous occasions that all the South had to do was withdraw their claims of secession to end the war,
NOT outlaw slavery. If you're talking about the Emancipation Proclamation, that was an executive order that came into place towards the latter half of the war when the South was hurting and he was pouring on the fire for the purposes of ending the war as soon as possible. In fact, you if you want to know how the North received it, they ridiculed Lincoln about the EO every day until the moment he was assassinated.
Also, you guys
DO realize that much of the division between the views of the North and the South had been developing for
YEARS, right? Things were not going along "swimmingly" between their diverging ideals, and the South was planning to secede regardless of whether it as Lincoln or any other Republican candidate who won the 1860 election due to how much the Northern states had mistreated them over the years.