A House-Divided

[Eva Elisabeth]

(12-06-2015 03:31 PM)Wild Bill Wrote:  Lincoln did not falsely parody C.J.Taney. If one reads these three quotes Lincoln is right on the money. He was correct that the decision of the Court in Dred Scott DID in effect turn Illinois into a slave state. It turned all states into slave states.

Thanks, Bill, this has always been my understanding of the ongoings.

Factually I agree on "the South had won the Constitutional/legal argument", just to me this was morally/ethically wrong from the outset thus as well as it was to maintain it (while I do not say all abolitionists had entirety such altruistic motives). Subsequently while some of Lincoln's decisions/actions may legally have been questionable, yet to me they were legitimate. Factually also the Confederates fired the first shot.

I wonder what would have happened had Seward not foolishly undermined Lincoln's initial reinforcement plan. (Not that I think it would have changed anything on the whole.)

What do you estimate - without the CW, for how long would slavery have continued to legally exist in the worst case?