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'Idiot,' 'Yahoo,' 'Original Gorilla': How Lincoln Was Dissed in His Day
The Atlantic ^ | June 2013 | Mark Bowden

Posted on 10/04/2019 11:30:12 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: BenLurkin

Wow the progeny of NeverLincolners


22 posted on 10/04/2019 1:34:05 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: BenLurkin

And yet the Constitution survives.


23 posted on 10/04/2019 1:44:07 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

If you say so.


24 posted on 10/04/2019 2:26:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Atlantic is a rag...


25 posted on 10/04/2019 3:02:29 PM PDT by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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To: DiogenesLamp
You think Johnson pressured the army to do that? Lincoln made his purpose clear before he died.

And continued to do it from the grave. We get it.

On the other hand, do you think the Southern states did that voluntarily? I find that hard to believe, because the long standing narrative was that they fought a war or something to preserve slavery, so it strikes me as implausible that they would simply give up something they supposedly sacrificed so many people to protect.

Yes because in 1865 the Southern state legislatures that voted to ratify were made up primarily of Unionists. The former Rebs didn't begin to infest them until after the rebellion was over.

26 posted on 10/04/2019 3:04:07 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: BillyBoy

Quite true.


27 posted on 10/04/2019 3:21:39 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Bunch of jerques.


28 posted on 10/04/2019 4:24:29 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Lincoln was an anticonstitutional tyrant.


29 posted on 10/04/2019 6:45:44 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: USS Alaska

So the federal government abides by the enumerated powers clause today?
He destroyed the constitution.


30 posted on 10/05/2019 5:01:48 AM PDT by axxmann (If McCain is conservative then I'm a freakin' anarchist.)
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