Lincoln and today's politics

[JMadonna]

John Botts a delegate from Va to the peace convention wrote his view of the start of the civil war. Its very interesting and free on google books.

He said the peace convention was a sham from the start. The South was going to scuttle any proposal for compromise so they could say to southerners that they tried their best but those damn yankees gave us no choice. Like we haven't seen that tactic used before. Still works!