Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "How Lincoln Changed the World in Two Minutes | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. You are compounding the error that got the south into the mess in the first place: not taking Lincoln at his word. The war, of course, placed the US in debt, and there was never any prospect of a gain. If there had been no secession how could Lincoln have implemented your nefarious plan? The reason for the secession was precisely that the southern squires feared, despite Lincoln's assurances to the contrary, that he would contrive to eliminate slavery: they said so repeatedly at the time. If that was NOT Lincoln's plan, as you insist, they miscalculated badly. If your theory is correct, they could have thwarted Lincoln by: 1. Doing nothing. Particularly not seceding. 2. Even failing that by not violating their agreement not to fire on Fort Sumter. Lincoln did not violate his end, his naval expedition was under orders to supply the fort only, and not to reinforce it unless it was attacked. Once again, they just ASSUMED he was lying. The Confederate provisional government had already called for the mustering of a large Confederate army before Lincoln took office and any Northern preparations took place. Note that Lincoln did not rush to take the other seizures of Federal Forts as a pretext for war prior the Fort Sumter attack. The war was, to use Lincoln's phrase a southern "appeal from ballots to bullets". Having appealed to that penultimate court, they must abide the verdict. As it was their acts of war ultimately achieved only the regional equivalent of "suicide by cop".
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