Posted on 01/20/2018 7:13:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It often looked like Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t survive his first year as president.
The mere fact of his election so infuriated seven southern states that they seceded from the Union before he was sworn into office. Rumors of an assassination plot caused him to sneak ignominiously into Washington for his inauguration, disguised in a cap and cloak that for weeks became objects of derision by cartoonists.
A horrible first year for one of the nation’s greatest presidents might serve as a source of inspiration for Donald Trump who’s had his own rocky start —except.
Except just about everything.
Lincoln constantly sought to uplift the country and bring it together, reminding Americans of the “better angels of our nature,” not to divide and denigrate as this president does on an almost daily, sometimes hourly, basis.
Though the president remained single-minded in his pursuit of Union, Lincoln voiced self-doubt, something we’ve never known Donald Trump to do.
Naming past presidents, Lincoln insisted “’they were just as good, and would have done just as I have if the time had come.”
Can you imagine Trump saying that? Or showing “as much respect and kindness to the colored persons present as to the whites,” as Sojourner Truth said Lincoln had done?
Donald Trump had a rough first year. That’s where his similarity to our 16th president ends.
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Cokasarus Irrelevantus - swamp dwelling Democrat hack
That would be real history, FRiend.
Before the presidential election of Tuesday, November 6, 1860 Deep South "Fire Eaters" threatened that election of "Black Republicans" would cause secession & war.
By Saturday, November 10 South Carolinians had begun organizing to declare their secession.
So by February 1861 seven Deep South states had declared secession and Confederacy, long before Lincoln's inauguration on March 4.
Those who expressed their reasons gave the threat Lincoln's Republicans represented to their "peculiar institution".
Oh for God’s sake, Donald Trump is no Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln was no Donald Trump. Different men, different situations, different times. Comparisons between the two are stupid.
Apparently Trump wants to keep them there, if stories about that meeting be true.
Before Dred Scott, too.
Snicker, on point.
Anyone who has read any history would know that it's false.
and a vampire hunter.
From WIkipedia. He changed his mind later, but this was his view for many years.
Cokie can’t believe that her time is up.
“Before Dred Scott, too.”
Yes, however it applied to the North and required the North to return slaves that had escaped from the South to freedom.
The only question is he better than reagan and collidge?
Before the country split apart, Lincoln was involved in partisan politics, supporting his side against the other. That's not to say he wasn't principled -- party divisions were about principle -- but he wasn't ignoring or smoothing over real divisions of principle and interest. He thought that the country and the people were strong enough to survive disagreement and debate.
Cokie's father was of course, Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana. Her mother was from the Claiborne family that was very prominent in Virginia, Louisiana, and Mississippi politics. Claiborne Pell, the Rhode Island senator, was a distant relative. One of Cokie's ancestors was a Confederate general whose son was a Confederate colonel.
Colonization was voluntary, you said he wanted to send them back. The only president or former president I'm aware of who wanted to expel all blacks was Thomas Jefferson.
Geez. Why can’t you just admit you were wrong and apologize for your insulting, uninformed response?
Because I'm not the one who is wrong, insulting or uniformed.
What DoodleDawg posted is factual - Jefferson favored gradual emancipation and then resettlement in Africa. Lincoln favored voluntary emigration - as did Robert E. Lee.
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