Lincoln’s Folly
6th July 2013
Steve Sailer indulges in a little revisionism.
The arrogance of the South Carolinians and their followers in the six Deep South cotton states would not have plunged the nation into a war that killed 750,000 Americans if not for Abraham Lincoln’s Hicksville unpreparedness. Indeed, Lincoln’s worldly Secretary of State William Seward came up with a brilliant plan to avert civil war at the last moment, only to have it shunned by a jealous Lincoln.
A glance at a map showing the dates of secession suggests that it might have been contained at the brushfire stage.