Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/17/17 2:02 PM, Its Me wrote:
The text below was written by Dr. Smith, who is co-director of the Civil
War Institute at American University in Washington, D.C.
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I presume Lee took an oath to defend the United States and its
Constitution. He violated that oath and fought against the United
States. By all accounts, he was a good military leader, but he fought to
maintain the vile cause of slavery and treating blacks as second-class
citizens. That vile cause took another innocent life last week. Lee was
a traitor to the United States and its people.


The war was primarily about economics and tariffs, not slavery. If it was
slavery, why so long for the Emancipation Proclamation? And why it did not
apply to all states?