[IncPen]

IBTLC

_{(In Before the Lost Causers)}

[NTHockey]

I don’t want to start CWII (although there is sufficient reason provided by the half breed), Lincoln had serious deficiencies.

Habeus Corpus was suspended, the draft was a disaster and the first income tax was imposed West Virginia was admitted as a state, unconstitutionally. Maryland and Delaware legislators were barred from meeting to vote for secession. Nevada’s constitution was imposed making the state subservient to the feds.

[Tupelo]

He was able to accomplish this revolutionary object through passive management of the Civil War without turning it in to a “remorseless revolutionary struggle,” which might have irreparably divided the nation during Reconstruction.
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I have to disagree with Mr. Ransom on this sentence. I think the unCivil War did Irreparably divide the nation, both during and after Reconstruction. Everything from the Scalawags and Carpetbaggers to the KKK came out of that war and the Reconstruction that followed. All we have to do is look at the way the South is portrayed in the North and how the North is portrayed in the South. As I said, I think this nation is irreparably divided.

[vetvetdoug]

Stanton was a necrophiliac. There is quite the information about him in a few libraries that are dedicated to Lincoln.

[ml/nj]

I wish America would know Lincoln more thoroughly, because his heart still shines so brightly for us all, not just as a president, but mostly as a man.

I too wish Americans would know Lincoln more thoroughly. For starters I would suggest reading Adams' When in the Course of Human Events (or even just the reviews of it at Amazon) and Edgar Lee Masters' Lincoln, The Man. (Masters is pretty good but he doesn't include the bit where "Honest Abe" abandoned his family on a train that he feared would be attacked.)

ML/NJ

[iowamark]

It is unfair to say that Thomas Lincoln had no ambition. Rather, his only ambition was to be a frontier farmer. Abraham Lincoln wanted to learn to read from an early age. This set them apart, as Thomas saw reading as a waste of time.