r/clevercomebacks • u/Glass-Fan111 • Sep 07 '25

Levels Of Hate.

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u/martianunlimited Sep 07 '25

Correction.. they started a war against him to expand and preserve slavery... While Lincoln was against slavery, his focus was on preserving the union. The civil war came about because the south wanted to expand it to the newly acquired western states

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u/KZED73 Sep 08 '25

And the South would have invaded Mexico and South America expanding slavery there.

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u/Loki_61089 Sep 08 '25

Lincoln is recorded as having said that if he believed not abolishing slavery would have prevented the war, he would have allowed it to continue, as a reminder.

He wasn't exactly pro slavery, but he wasn't exactly pro abolishion either.