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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The Supreme court says it is. You’re free to mount a challenge if you wish.
You are brain dead, so it doesn't matter.
'Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.'
Mark Twain -
In point of fact, Honest Abe’s own grandfather (Abraham) was murdered by Indians while he was working his cornfield. Honest Abe’s father, Thomas, as a child, and who was working the field with his father, Abraham, witnessed it.
The Supreme Court says abortion and gay marriage are constitutional rights. We know better.
The Supreme Court maintained that separate but equal was constitutionally permissible for decades. it said that blacks could not be citizens.
They may be abhorrent abuses of the term rights but they stand until ruled otherwise.
The Supreme Court maintained that separate but equal was constitutionally permissible for decades. it said that blacks could not be citizens.
That's right - they represented the law of the land until successfully challenged.
So I see.
The partition of Virginia was approved by a body of the Virginia legislature loyal to the U.S. and not involved in the rebellion. Their vote to split was approved by Congress. The requirements of the Fifth Amendment was met.
These quotes are from what please?
But usually the Supreme Court gets it right. As they did in the case of secession.
Secession happened before Lincoln and the northern Republicans took office and control of Congress. Try again.
Of course not. But I think there is a good possibility that there would have been no split.
What would have prevented it?
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.
The first successful mechanical cotton harvester wasn't introduced until the 1930's.
Fake history. Jim Crow existed in the South long before Lincoln's election and remained long after Lincoln's death.
If you're condemning Lincoln for that then you must really hate the Confederate leaders.
You are confusing the Ordinances of Secession with the Declarations of the Causes of Secession. Only three or four southern states issued those, giving their reasons cor taking the actions they took. And in all of those slavery is by far the single most prominently mentioned reason.
It freed every slave in the areas under control of the forces of the rebellion. Didn't you read it?
Coulda, woulda, shoulda, but didn't.
Say what? What's an "internal tariff"?
Assuming that you are referring to Clement Valdandigham, he was not a Congressman when arrested.
Actually they did. Most of the troops came from southern state militias.
Wrong. The Republicans gained a majority in the House in 1858 and the Senate in 1860. The election results were known in November 1860. South Carolina seceded in December 1860. You think the South couldn't see the dominoes falling?
And do you think that the post electoral plans of the Republicans were not well known, given that they had run for election on them??
"What would have prevented it?"
No Republican majority, no secession. It really "is" that simple.
"The first successful mechanical cotton harvester wasn't introduced until the 1930's."
Being from the South, I am well aware of the history of mechanical cotton picking. Without the huge expenditure of money and resources sucked up by the war, technological development would almost certainly been accelerated.
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