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To: IronJack

You mean the speech where Lincoln espoused government of the people, by the people, and for the people, while waging a war against the Southern people to deny them just that?


5 posted on 02/19/2017 7:39:52 AM PST by odawg
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To: odawg

My friend,

The South was defending slavery. That’s not something that can be tolerated by a society that has the power to do something about it. If the south would have just been willing to let the territories west of the Mississippi be free, slavery would have have slowly vanished in the south without a war....politics...but not war....alike it did in much of South America. Instead, the south felt threatened and wanted a slave state to match every free state. This was their fatal mistake because slavery was never a long term option. Ultimately, this is what led to war and their destruction. It’s sad because the South has a nobility about it that to this day can’t be matched by the northerners. That nobility was definitely tarnished due to slavery.


10 posted on 02/19/2017 7:50:39 AM PST by Mustangman
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To: odawg

And Lincoln burned our southern states to the ground


14 posted on 02/19/2017 8:14:28 AM PST by Democrat_media (Yellen raising rates with only 1.8% growth to hurt Trump send USA to depression)
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To: odawg

I’m curious. Were you alive 154 years ago? How has what happened 154 years ago made your life worse to justify your animosity towards the “north” today?


21 posted on 02/19/2017 8:30:22 AM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: odawg

Lincoln haters our of step for 150 years.


22 posted on 02/19/2017 8:34:12 AM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: odawg

LOL! I knew someone would have to reboot the Civil War.


33 posted on 02/19/2017 9:08:16 AM PST by IronJack
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