Re: Help design the ideal Presidential candidate

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Alfred Montestruc <montestruc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> That makes Mr. Lincoln's war wrong, mitigated only by his much
> belated, and not for any moral reason, making one of the aims of
> the war the end of slavery.  He did so not because of the moral
> outrage that it was, but rather as a war measure as slaves were
> being used by the CS Army and the civilian economy, and so long as
> they were given no explicit reason to run- as in victory for the
> Union meant an end to slavery - being sensible people they did as
> told by their masters.

Wasn't the Emancipation Proclamation also intended to shift opinion
in anti-slavery England away from supporting the Confederacy?  And
was successful at doing so?

-- wds