Re: For Paul (NJC)

[Kakki]

Paul wrote:

> If what you say were true, I doubt that Republican President >Abraham
Lincoln would have gone to war to preserve the >Union, and instead would
have favored the rights of states >and their citizens to "live the life the
way they choose."

I see him as completely following Republican ideology by fighting to put an
end to slavery once and for all. U.S. citizens were denying rights to fellow
U.S. citizens in the South.  The slaveowners' "rights" were illegal under
U.S. law from the beginning.

Kakki