The Terrible Truth About Abraham Lincoln and the Confederate War

Snap Out of it, America! ^ | 1/20/14 | Michael Hutcheson

[Deb]

Oh, shut up.

[anton]

What a better world this would be if the South succession had been a achieved permanently.

[berdie]

later

[SkyDancer]

And the Union was saved.

[Resolute Conservative]

Oooh, your going to raise the ire of those “it is all about slavery” robots. Get on your flame suit.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"...and that the “evil” Southern states seceded from the Union to protect slavery. This is the Yankee myth of history, written and promulgated by Northerners, and it is a complete falsity."

There are seldom complete falsities, or complete truths, in history. In the name of intellectual honestly, southerners might as well admit that slavery was in fact, an important factor. Northerners should admit that it was far from the only factor, and that Lincoln broke the law on multiple occasions.

[Kansas58]

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Lincoln did what he had to do.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

You could have saved yourself a lot of typing if you just wrote the Mississippi secessionists' reason for trying to leave the union:

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world."

[Resolute Conservative]

” The South was engaged in a War of Independence from a tyrannical North, and after having legally seceded, wished only “to be let alone.” The North was engaged in a war of empire, to keep the South involuntarily under its yoke”

The war continues today with libs playing the north and conservatives the south.

[cuban leaf]

What a better world this would be if the South succession had been a achieved permanently.

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This is the frustrating part of this for me. The US really needed to be kept together, but the way he did it was less than honorable.

Also, it is what gave us big government. Before Lincoln, the united states was more akin to the EU. The federal government was VERY limited. I compare it to a brick wall. the states are the bricks and the mortar holding them together is the Federal government.

Now we have a mortar wall with fifty marbles embedded in it.

[ClearCase_guy]

I am sympathetic to states' rights and I am not sympathetic to Lincoln.

For decades before the war, the South, through harsh tariffs, had been supplying about 85% of the country’s revenue

This came up on FR just the other day. I did some quick research and it appears to be a common bone of contention. Some folks say it's true. Some folks say it's not true. Perhaps I need better research skills, but I was not able to come up with any specific taxes or tariffs, and the years they were passed, which support the claim that the South was victimized in this way, or that the any huge percentage of federal revenue was coming from the cotton.

If anyone can give me cold, hard, specific facts which support the claim, I would be much obliged.

[SharpRightTurn]

“he had imprisoned nearly all those who dared to simply speak out against his unconstitutional usurpations of power.”

Coming to a White House near us?

[Mr. Lucky]

What you said.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Didn’t Obummer say that Lincoln was his favorite?

[Servant of the Cross]

Some blogs are better off excerpted ....

[Popman]

Add to you list...
14. Picked his nose...
15. Scratched his nuts in public...

Gee... this crap gets old.....

It’s not like history will be reversed...

[DoodleDawg]

What a better world this would be if the South succession had been a achieved permanently.

Wouldn't have to put up with the SEC for one thing.

[Michael.SF.]

this would be equivalent to President G.W. Bush arresting and imprisoning roughly 150,000-200,000 Americans without trial for “disagreeing” with the Iraq war; can you imagine?)

Imagine? No. But hoped for? Yes.

;)

[jimt]

Wow, what a persuasive refutation. How long did you work on it ?