johnbrown
2008-10-27 09:36:02
It’s interesting that the “other goals” which McClellan hinted at included the abolition of slavery, which the Democratic Party opposed but which the Republican Party had firmly committed itself to. (It was abolished by the 13th amendment shortly after Lincoln’s victory.)
At that time the other “civilized nations” of the world strongly endorsed the Union cause and, above all, abolition. Nowadays those same nations opposed the removal of Saddam Hussein and the destruction of his genocidal regime. That’s progress, isn’t it?
