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Entry: Come Home, Conservatives! -- to the Antiwar Conservative Movement Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/come_home_conservatives_the_antiwar_conservative_movement#25910 Post contents: No serious historian will claim Lincoln went to war to end slavery. Indeed, just prior to his inauguration, Lincoln offered support to the proposed Corwin Amendment, the original 13th amendment that would have prevented Congress from ever messing with slavery. And as Jeff Rogers Hummel points out his in book 'Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men', it was the federal union that protected slavery and secession of the deep south states would have resulted in its rapid decline. It was Lincoln's illegal order to invade the South which led drove Virginia, North Carolina, and Arkansas to secede and tank arms with Gulf State Confederacy. Why did the aboliton of slavery in the United States require a war that took the lives of over 620,000 men when every other Western nation was able to end it peacefully? The answer is, of course, it didn't. Lincoln went to war to preserve his lousy tariff. Sent at: 2008 08 08