Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120706:11:30:00
Democracy itself would be lost. that the idea that ordinary people cougovern themselves wou be make a mockery by the fact that the south was able to succeed from the union and the idea of america as a beacon of hope to the world at large forever more would be destroyed. it wasn't the ending of slavery, something as deep as that. you hold that inside you and somehow you can absorb. he would go to the battlefield, went a dozen times and saw as you're saying saw the wounded, walked among the troops. he felt every single one of those deaths and yet was able to make those incredibly hard decisions....