To prove that history is constantly being rewritten, I have heard some people claim recently that Abrahan Lincoln was one of our worst presidents. Their justification for this is the belief that the Confederate states would have happily returned to the in Union 20-30 years, after it became apparant that slavery was no longer tolerated elsewhere in the civilized world. They say slavery was already dying out, and that North and South could have parted amicably, and then reunited with no ill effects. Is this a realistic scenario? If our country had split in two, would France or England have tried to control one region or the other?
560,000 people died in the Civil War. Some revisionists are saying it was too high a price, and not necessary.
2006-06-22
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