Not to mention him having the Navy bomb the crap out of New York City when they refused the draft!
It would be awesome if we had the national fortitude to do the same to MS-13 leaders.
George Washington ordered the destruction of the Iroquois towns during the Revolutionary War. But neo-Confederates like to pretend he was a Jeffersonian, so they say nothing, just as they forget he was a Federalist who believed in implied powers and signed the First Bank of the United States into law.
I'm getting so sick and tired of all this Lincoln bashing (especially by people who call other people "RINOs"). So no history book prior to 1960 considered slavery a factor in the Civil War? At all?? Really???
This is getting ridiculous.
He also ordered US Naval ships to fire on NYC during the draft riots where democrats didn’t want to be drafted to fight the war.
But, but 300 were supposed to be hanged! He commuted the sentence of all but those 38 hanged. Since he did that isn’t Lincoln a “good guy”?
sounds like a little more to the story than just hunting off Indian lands.
It looks like your name should be “plain lies.”
They weren’t hanged for “hunting off the reservation.”. They were hanged for their roles in the Mankato Massacre.
I stopped reading at he attacked the CSA.
This is how liberals are working to rewrite history.
Bookmark - Fake History?
"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)
Some people have made it their life’s work to discredit President Lincoln.
“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.
Little Crow was the chief of the Santee-Dakota Sioux in Minnesota. He was a Christian convert, attended church, and lived quietly on the reservation land given his people by treaty. They were sold an allotment of rations by the U.S Bureau of Indian Affairs agent Andrew J. Myrick. The costs of the rations began to increase, be delayed, and eventually his band was sold nothing but rotting meat and mealy grain and flour at inflated prices. When his band was starving and he complained to the agent there in charge (who was getting rich skimming profits) Myrick reportedly told Little Crow his people could “eat grass”. On August 17, 1862 that agent was one of the first to die in the uprising that followed, and was found with his mouth stuffed full of grass. Minnesota records state that 644 citizens and 757 U.S. troopers died in the fighting. Little Crow was killed a year later by deer hunters in northern Minnesota while the surviving Santees fled west to the Teton-Dakota Sioux.
Stupid.
Thwt ain’t what happened and removing content to create new context is dishonest...to Abe...
Despite the heroism of the soldiers on both sides, here is the summary - it was a colossal blunder and failure of both sides’ leaders to avoid:
- the deaths of ~1/30 of the population (over 1 million, out of 31.4 million)
- the acceleration of tyrannical federal authority, leading to what we have today
Neo-Confederate revisionism, that bit about taxes and tariffs has been shown to be a big lie.
Articles for secession for every state, Mississippi, Texas, Carolinas explicitly mention that they are fighting for slavery. Why didn’t they mention they were fighting against taxes and tariffs? Neo-Confederate revisionism is a joke.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/amgov/secession.html
https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html
Or you just need to read the speeches and writings of the Southern leaders of the time.
"The South had always been solid for slavery and when the quarrel about it resulted in a conflict of arms, those who had approved the policy of disunion took the pro-slavery side. It was perfectly logical to fight for slavery, if it was right to own slaves." [John S. Mosby, Mosby's Memoirs, p. 20]
I'll bet he also never knew that Jefferson Davis ordered the second largest MASS HANGING IN US HISTORY of Union POWs in 1864: Link