First Inaugural: “I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service.”
...”and to collect the duties...what may be necessary..."
Lincoln would accept slavery but not failure to pay tariffs.
The true character of the man was startlingly evident.
They dare not. The consequences of doing so are too horrible for them to contemplate. Nobody wants to think of themselves as being on the side of evil. They want to believe that what their side (or their ancestor's side) did was moral and just, and the thought that their ancestors were the instruments of tyranny is to repulsive for them to allow it any credence.
They want to believe what they believe, and they will continue doing so unless an incredibly compelling case is made to the contrary.
First Inaugural: “I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service.”
...”and to collect the duties...what may be necessary..."
Lincoln would accept slavery but not failure to pay tariffs.
The true character of the man was startlingly evident.
He was remarkably two faced and on many different occasions. I think he had personal feelings about slavery, but I think he was completely pragmatic about living with it.
The only reason he is so highly thought of is the endless propaganda on his behalf since the war. People simply gloss right over the contradictions, and that's if they even learn about them in the first place.
It wasn't until 2009 when I visited the Lincoln Monument in Washington D.C. that I became aware he had offered to keep slavery if the South would rejoin the Union. It came as a bit of a shock to me because this is not at all what I had been taught in my life.
It does not fit the narrative.
Precisely because 1) the President is not involved in Constitutional Amendments, 2) the US Constitution at the time recognized slavery in the South, and 3) it grants Washington authority to collect tariffs.
So it's no mystery to anyone not blinded by their pro-Confederate mythological fantasies.