Talk:John Wilkes Booth/@comment-38.114.202.226-20140513154322/@comment-1509826-20140514074605

Yeah, I said it was to try and keep the union together, Slavery was the secondary goal, if you look it up Lincons views on Slavery rapidly declined as time went on, he also later said "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free," and "Whenever I hear anyone arguing over slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

Booth wasn't a soldier, he was an actor. Lincon wasn't a soldier, he was a polition, killing him is nothing sort of murder, reguardless of how you look at it, especially considering that the war was pretty much over when he did it.

And what? Neither of them were black or white, there is so such thing as black and white morarlity, where all just shades of grey.

Your argument that Booth is the better man is based on the fact he supported the conferedates rights to govern themselves (which I'm pretty sure they didn't have, nor grasp why states should be able to do that, they are after only a part of single country) and was a charming man. Please don't be Navie.