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I Never Knew That Abraham Lincoln Ordered The Largest MASS HANGING IN US HISTORY, Or Why He Did It
The Daily Check ^ | May 29, 2017

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 800americanskilled; bs; dakotawar; kkk; klan; lincoln; neoconfederate; neoconfederatelies; presidents; propaganda; shamefulrevision; unworthyoffr; warbetweenthestates; zot
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To: DesertRhino
"...the Sioux did nothing wrong by murdering their way from farm to farm"

Muslims before their time?

221 posted on 06/18/2017 4:05:09 PM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: Bulwyf
If someone can’t see the harm that came out of the civil war, then they’ve been effectively blinded by the propaganda since.

A lot of people have been blinded by propaganda apparently.

222 posted on 06/18/2017 4:25:59 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

That’s the whole point of propaganda.

I’ve been a victim of it too. Myriad of issues, but one day I actually opened my eyes and started looking around.

It’s incredible what one can see when the blinders are off.

Of course the only way to really see with blinders off is through Jesus Christ himself.


223 posted on 06/18/2017 4:42:27 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: itsahoot
You assume that I know everything but in fact was asking in the hopes that you might be able to shed some extra light. I was mistaken and won't bother with you further.
224 posted on 06/18/2017 5:11:04 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: DoodleDawg

What’s interesting is the number of FReepers who allege to having had an epiphany of sorts when all they’re doing is turning from the light.


225 posted on 06/18/2017 5:16:05 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: x
"Secession destroyed the Old Republic. Whatever came next was going to be different."

And secession happened because northern Republicans and Lincoln basically waged economic warfare on the South.

"Be honest. Do you really think that a country divided into two hostile nations was going to be the same as one that largely had a continent to itself?

Of course not. But I think there is a good possibility that there would have been no split.

"The idea that the Civil War gave us big government is an exaggeration. Most functions were still in state hands after the war as before. It would take 50 years or more after the war for that to change.

The Civil War set the precedent for a totally dominant central government supreme over the states. That it took time for the full effects of that precedent to be realized is irrelevant.

"But do you really think that an exceptionally decentralized form of government would have survived into the 21st century?"

Actually, yes. Switzerland has lasted far longer and survived quite nicely into the 21st Century.

"And do you really think that country founded on slavery -- whether the US or the CSA -- could be devoted to liberty for very long? Wouldn't the fear of the slave owners or the rage of the slaves eventually overwhelm constitutional protections?

There would have been no "country founded on slavery" in the long run. Slavery was morally and economically doomed, and would have disappeared in the same fifty years you posited for the overweening central government to fully develop. Developments in agriculture would have seen to that. A horse-drawn or steam-powered cotton-picker isn't much of a stretch, given developments in agricultural innovation between 1860 and 1880 or -90.

226 posted on 06/18/2017 5:27:09 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Nifster

Some did, though not directly. They complained about an excess of Federal power.


227 posted on 06/18/2017 5:49:00 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Which may technically be illegal, as the Constitution requires the consent of the legislature of teh state from which the new state is seceding — which, giv en that Virginia was out of the Union at the time, was not possible to get.

So the Union troops occupying Alexandria woke teh city council up in the middle of teh night, declared them the legislature, and told them they couldn’t go back to sleep until they approved West Virginia’s secession.


228 posted on 06/18/2017 5:54:01 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Nifster

Here are some excellent articles (from a black writer) on the legality of secession:

http://walterewilliams.com/secession-or-nullification/
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/walter-e-williams/2012/12/03/walter-e-williams-column-secession-craze-isnt-crazy-parting
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/secession-its-constitutional/
http://walterewilliams.com/the-real-lincoln/


229 posted on 06/18/2017 5:56:26 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Article IV, Section 3, paragraph 1:

"New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress." (Emphasis mine.)

230 posted on 06/18/2017 6:02:05 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

Because their slaves, which they considered property, we’re not being returned


231 posted on 06/18/2017 6:40:47 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: TBP

Doesn’t matter what the academics decide or say now. A war was fought.


232 posted on 06/18/2017 6:41:57 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

And? Force makes legality?


233 posted on 06/18/2017 6:50:15 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

All the hypotheticals in the world don’t change what actually happened


234 posted on 06/18/2017 6:53:40 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

So we’re bound for all time by the results of a war? The fact is that secession is nowhere prohibited.


235 posted on 06/18/2017 6:55:37 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Wonder Warthog
"But do you really think that an exceptionally decentralized form of government would have survived into the 21st century?"
Actually, yes. Switzerland has lasted far longer and survived quite nicely into the 21st Century.

Apples and oranges.

Switzerland has several characteristics which render its situation qualitatively different from that of the United States. Switzerland is much smaller in terms of geographic size and population, and there is also a much greater degree of ethnic and cultural homogeneity. The United States was also a growing nation with an expanding frontier which incorporated new territories periodically.

Having said that, your thesis isn't necessarily false, but the prevailing conditions in Switzerland—versus the United States—were sufficiently different that similar outcomes couldn't be automatically expected.

236 posted on 06/18/2017 7:02:00 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: BeadCounter

>> The South was a white supremacist society, their own speeches confirmed that. Ugly.

What’s really ugly are people like you who want to shove your views of the world down the throats of everyone else. White supremacy was and is an historical fact whether you like it or not.


237 posted on 06/18/2017 7:06:46 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (God, Guns, and Trump will save the USA)
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To: TBP

The war did happen. It’s effects are still felt.


238 posted on 06/18/2017 7:08:51 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: plain talk
So tired of hearing the Civil War was not about slavery. Of course it was. And the Democrats, who controlled the South at that time, wanted to keep it in place. Hence the Civil War. It was ALL about slavery.

The Democrats still have their slavery today, in the form of public housing, food stamps and illegal immigration. They haven't changed a bit. But the South has moved on while much of the North has apparently embraced slavery in its current form.

239 posted on 06/18/2017 7:17:32 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: itsahoot

>>The greatest Barrier to the truth is to believe you already have it. Chuck Missler

This is one of most nonsensical statements I’ve ever read. Missler must have been a moron.


240 posted on 06/18/2017 7:34:00 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (God, Guns, and Trump will save the USA)
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