Re: Help design the ideal Presidential candidate

On May 7, 5:33 pm, wdst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December Starr) wrote:
> In article
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>,
> AlfredMontestruc<montest...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
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> > 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?


Yes and yes.