Oh boy! We haven’t had a good FR Civil War dustup for a while. This should be good.
The south has “Lost Causers,” the north has “Lincoln Sainthood.” He did not fight the Civil War to free the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation was a military document, intended to spur insurrection in the south and the south alone, as it did not free slaves in States outside the Confederacy. Lincoln held blacks to be inferior to whites. He was not at all alone in this belief, particularly among his Union compatriots, contrary to the popular public school mythology that places this belief solely at the feet of southerners.
Tell the true history, I say. All of it. Don’t be afraid of it. The States that comprised the former Confederacy believed themselves to possess a Constitutional right to dissolve their association with other States, for any reason. So did several others, notably in New England, that threatened secession several decades prior.
Regarding the speech to free blacks in the excerpt, where does anybody think Liberia came from, and how do they believe Liberia to have been established?
I had to laugh. The comment section after the article was locked and closed.
I doubt if it was ever open.