I stayed for the next speaker who was Kevin Wood, portraying President Abraham Lincoln. He sure looked the part, as did Wayne Issleb who portrayed General and President U.S. Grant. Both were great speakers and really brought their persons across. Both audiences were standing room only.
The lucky folks were seated on hay bales. How's that for historical?
According to President Lincoln, what really brought about the Civil War was Stephen Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Act. This meant that slavery could not be contained in the state s where it already existed, but could spread to the incoming states.
Lincoln did not like slavery but could live with it as long as it stayed put where it was.
His Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in Confederate states where the Union had no control. But he figured that slaves were aiding the Confederates in their efforts, so if he could cause them to stop and head for Union lines that this would help the effort.
In my opinion, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was one of the greatest political moves ever made by a politician. Lincoln truly was the politician's politician. The only slaves freed were those outside of Union control, but that would cause them to runaway every chance they got and their labors could not help the Confederacy.
Since the ones in the divided border states weren't freed, it kept those states on the Union side. And, most importantly, by making the war one of freeing the slaves, this would keep Britain and France from allying themselves with the Confederacy.
--Old Secesh
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