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QUESTION: The 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth is coming up this month. What would our country have been like if he had finished his term in office?
(See the February 6, 2009 "NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS" link below)
ANSWER: There are many who said, at the time, that the death of President Lincoln served everyone much better than if he had lived through the reconstruction period of the United States.
With "new blood" behind the office of the President, Lincoln was not present to continue his own agendas.
President Lincoln was a proponent of having all slavery abolished. He kept his own feelings, regarding this issue, private. However, he was one with a great desire that, "All in the Country of the Free", truly be free. He was one to voice these thoughts in private with friends.
To have been present in the reconstruction, after the Civil War, would have made an issue of abolishing slavery as well as uniting the two halves of the country. Lincoln's feelings were that the North and the South should be one economic interest. His thought was that when there are separated financial interests, this eventually leads to war and separation.
These two separated factions were not ready to come together, and consider themselves as ones who were co-operative and a part of the same country. Therefore, to have forced this issue, rather than give it some space and time, would have seen the South rise up again to fight.
Because of the South's cotton and tobacco crops, the great possibility would have been, that European interests would have given money to the South. To become a separate nation, in an additional war, would have served European interests very well.
Europe had no idea how the absence of these commodities would affect its own financial world. When the end of the civil war came, they were imminently aware of the cost to them, in the exclusion of these two commodities.
Already, before the end of the Civil War, there were those business interests looking at "investing in production, as partners," in these Southern commodities. This would have given money to the South to continue, and win, the war. These business interests would then have become very involved in the financial and political interests of the South.
The possibility is very high that, today, the Southern part of the USA would be a part of the European Continent by ownership of its business and political interests.
An Editorial, 2009
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News Article: For more information, see news link below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/books/review/Safire-t.html
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