[Colonel Kangaroo]

Lincoln was a liberator, not a Stalin.

The Yankee army enters Red Clay, Georgia as related by Illinois soldier Charles Partridge:

"The Union citizens were quite demonstrative, some of them even bringing out flags, which had doubtless been hidden for at least three years. Women swung their bonnets and men hurrahed for the Yankees and the Union, manifesting great delight. One man, who claimed to be ninety-eight years old and to have been a captain in the War of 1812, was almost frantic in his ejaculations when the Old Flag came into sight."

[kabar]

Lincoln was also a uniter who understood that this nation had to go forward together. From his second inaugural address:

One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.

Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully.

The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

"Journalist Noah Brooks, an eyewitness to the speech, said that as Lincoln advanced from his seat, "a roar of applause shook the air, and, again and again repeated, finally died away on the outer fringe of the throng, like a sweeping wave upon the shore. Just at that moment the sun, which had been obscured all day, burst forth in its unclouded meridian splendor, and flooded the spectacle with glory and with light." Brooks said Lincoln told him the next day, "Did you notice that sunburst? It made my heart jump."

According to Brooks, the audience received the speech in "profound silence," although some passages provoked cheers and applause. "Looking down into the faces of the people, illuminated by the bright rays of the sun, one could see moist eyes and even tearful faces."

Brooks also observed, "But chiefly memorable in the mind of those who saw that second inauguration must still remain the tall, pathetic, melancholy figure of the man who, then inducted into office in the midst of the glad acclaim of thousands of people, and illumined by the deceptive brilliance of a March sunburst, was already standing in the shadow of death."

[Psalm 144]

“The Union citizens were quite demonstrative, some of them even bringing out flags, which had doubtless been hidden for at least three years. Women swung their bonnets and men hurrahed for the Yankees and the Union, manifesting great delight. One man, who claimed to be ninety-eight years old and to have been a captain in the War of 1812, was almost frantic in his ejaculations when the Old Flag came into sight.”

The victors write the histories.

But then, all victory is fleeting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSOuHlSKHE&feature=related

[mstar]

frantic in his ejaculations when the Old Flag came into sight."

The MSM and 'spinning" has been around for a long time. The above sounds like it came from the MSNBC of its day.

I am a daughter of the south, my family going back to colonial times, living mostly in South Carolina and Miss.
I can tell you I have never heard anything like what you have written. Facts, quiet to the contrary are recorded by my ancestors and historians.

I can tell you stories, also recorded in the county history books, of my g,g,g grandmother, left alone on a plantation, pregnant, caring for her very young children, near Vicksburg that speak volumes of Northern Aggression.

My gggg grandparents had to walk to their relatives in Miss for shelter and food, as their homes in South Carolina were burned over their heads. They had been robbed, and devoured by the noble boys in blue.

Might want to pick up an factual account of what the population of women and children, black and white., endured while trapped in Vicksburg, Ms.

A good place to begin would be "The Slave Narratives of Mississippi" concerning the hell of Vicksburg. In one account, a black gentleman states, they were all so hungry he would lay his blanket in a mud hole, then dry it out so he could eat what was left on it. He also said he saw no reason for pride on the Yankees' part in conquering Vicksburg, asking why would you be proud to win when to do so, you starved the innocents trapped there.

I'll be glad to back anything I have written here with references

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One man, who claimed to be ninety-eight years old and to have been a captain in the War of 1812, was almost frantic in his ejaculations when the Old Flag came into sight.

I guess the language has changed a lot in a century and a half ...

... or it was quite a day indeed ...