Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100408:21:08:00
Electoral vote in the south. >> what was the issue? was it voting rights? >> gentlemen -- >> they wanted to kill their own kinfolk. that's virginia's issue. >> let's begin over the issue of slavery. tell me i am wrong. >> here is where you are wrong. lincoln's first inaugural to make slavery permanent, and wanted to run down fugitive slaves if they came back. >> lincoln ran -- >> no, he held to that. >> that's right. it scared the hell out of the confederacy, and they said you are sticking with us, and your side said let's fight. >> let's not rejude kate the