Posted on 06/17/2017 6:14:26 PM PDT by plain talk
People think that Abe Lincoln was such a benevolent President. He was actually a bit of a tyrant. He attacked the Confederate States of America, who seceded from the Union due to tax and tariffs. (If you think it was over slavery, you need to find a real American history book written before 1960.)
This picture is of 38 Santee Sioux Indian men that were ordered to be executed by Abraham Lincoln for treaty violations (IE: hunting off of their assigned reservation).
So, on December 26, 1862, the “Great Emancipator” ordered the largest mass execution in American History, where the guilt of those to be executed was entirely in doubt. Regardless of how Lincoln defenders seek to play this, it was nothing more than murder to obtain the land of the Santee Sioux and to appease his political cronies in Minnesota.
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Kind of contrived and forced motivation.
That is abjectly false. I suggest you reacquaint yourself with the U.S. Constitution, higgmeister.
The tariff is one of the many causes. The Northern industrial states were imposing internal tariffs on the Southern states, to keep them in an inferior competitive position.
I had left Rome to live my life by then. Our family lived in West Rome before I started school but we moved out of town off of the Kingston Highway in 1960.
Or earlier. Good question.
Even if it were doomed to fail, why didn’t they at least try?
Would the old Triangle Trade have anything to do with Northern reluctance?
“Hail Boston. Hail Charleston. Who stinketh the most?” — Edward Rutledge, “1776”
After the war, Jefferson Davis said they should have just used Article V and prevented the bloodshed.
The desire to own other human beings as property—not to mention actually codifying slavery as a Right(!) in the founding documents which were establishing a new government—cannot be construed as anything other than a "malicious motive".
The fact that many middle class, non-slave-owning Southerners were manipulated into shedding their blood so that wealthy elites could buy, sell, rape, and kill other human beings—without incurring any legal liability—is a crying shame.
That is not to cast aspersions on your ancestor(s). They doubtless fought honorably and bravely—something to be proud of—but the cause for which they fought—and "right of property in negro slaves" which was codified into the Confederate Constitution—should certainly be sufficient to induce sober-minded reflection...
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri (although the latter two had dual state governments, accounting for the 13 stars on teh Confederate flag), and what other one?
Ever heard of the Tenth Amendment?
“The powers not granted to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
It’s part of the Bill of Rights. Long before the War Between the States.
Very important point.
"Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
- Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, March 21, 1861 (Cornerstone Speech)
There were multiple reasons on both sides, and both sides were both right and wrong.
How many states identified tariffs as a reason to secede? I think you are w-a-y overstating this matter.
A reason, not the reason.
Some people have made it their life’s work to discredit President Lincoln.
Have her read both Harry Jaffa and Thomas DiLorenzo.
I’m from New York. Excellent post.
)Of course, I do have Lee blood.)
“In all, fifty Saint Patrick’s battalion members were officially executed by the U.S. Army. Collectively, this was the largest mass execution in United States history—the hanging of 38 Sioux at the conclusion of the Dakota War of 1862 appears to be the largest execution by hanging at a single event.” I’ve often thought that Col. William Harney, who was once court martialed in Fort Smith, was way more proficient with executions than anything Judge Parker had to do with quantity and quality of gallows duty.
That is abjectly false. I suggest you reacquaint yourself with the U.S. Constitution, higgmeister.
I guess you never noticed that slaves only counted as three fifths of a Persons. That did not change until three years after the "War of Northern Aggression."Article. I.
Section. 1.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section. 2.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Barack Obama is right up at or near the top of the list of worst presidents.
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