You need to buy this book and learn of the founding principles of the Republican Party. Any book with Lincoln, Reagan, Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens on the cover has got a lot going for it.
Posted on 04/14/2010 5:54:59 AM PDT by central_va
On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Booth, a Maryland native born in 1838, who remained in the North during the war despite his Confederate sympathies, initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, the president failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait. Two weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces.
In April, with Confederate armies near collapse across the South, Booth hatched a desperate plan to save the Confederacy. Learning that Lincoln was to attend a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater on April 14, Booth masterminded the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. By murdering the president and two of his possible successors, Booth and his conspirators hoped to throw the U.S. government into disarray.
On the evening of April 14, conspirator Lewis T. Powell burst into Secretary of State Seward's home, seriously wounding him and three others, while George A. Atzerodt, assigned to Vice President Johnson, lost his nerve and fled. Meanwhile, just after 10 p.m., Booth entered Lincoln's private theater box unnoticed and shot the president with a single bullet in the back of his head. Slashing an army officer who rushed at him, Booth leapt to the stage and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants]–the South is avenged!" Although Booth broke his leg jumping from Lincoln's box, he managed to escape Washington on horseback.
The president, mortally wounded, was carried to a lodging house opposite Ford's Theater. About 7:22 a.m. the next morning, Lincoln, age 56, died–the first U.S. president to be assassinated. Booth, pursued by the army and other secret forces, was finally cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia, and died from a possibly self-inflicted bullet wound as the barn was burned to the ground. Of the eight other people eventually charged with the conspiracy, four were hanged and four were jailed. Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, was buried on May 4, 1865, in Springfield, Illinois.
Davis was another one who thought all free blacks should be forcibly deported, though he leaned more towards Mexico and Central America. I guess because they could walk there and their former owners wouldn't have to foot the bill.
I am not the one saying Mr. Obama is unqualified to carry chamber pots. Nice try....BTW: Would it help if he had a real birth certificcate, would that make him qualified then?
You need to buy this book and learn of the founding principles of the Republican Party. Any book with Lincoln, Reagan, Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens on the cover has got a lot going for it.
A free black man was worse than useless to Jeff Davis and his gang. That's why he got so excited about the prospect of enslaving free blacks in the course of the war.
If you are not talking about Conscription, a reference would help.
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Yeah. The other historical figures are not worshiped like a God. Despite murdering 600,000+ Americans.
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I leave doing little or no research to folks like you. I prefer to do a lot of research.
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Yeah. One eye on your Lincoln blow up doll while you post.
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Obama isn't fit to carry Lincoln's chamber pot. But I notice how Lost Causers love to make the comparison.
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Comparisons between Lincoln and Obama:
1. Pandering
2. Illinois
3. Socialist
4. Lack of Constitutional understanding
5. Racist - One hated Blacks - The other hates Whites
6. Lawyer
7. Skinny
8. Fan of Marx<
9. Bastard Child
10. See #3
11. Weird wife
12. Has to read EVERY speech from paper/prompter
In relation to President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, he says he may well leave it to the instincts of that common humanity which a beneficent Creator has implanted in the breasts of our fellow-men of all countries to pass judgment on a measure of which several millions of human beings of an inferior race, peaceful and contented laborers in their sphere, are doomed to extermination; while, at the same time, they are encouraged to a general assassination of their masters by the insidious recommendation to abstain from violence, unless in necessary self-defense. Our own detestation of those who have attempted the most execrable massacre recorded in the history of guilty man is tinctured by a profound sentiment for the impotent rage which it discloses. As far as regards the action of this Government on such criminals as may attempt its execution, I confine myself to informing you that I shall, unless in your wisdom you deem some other course more expedient, deliver to the several State authorities all commissioned officers of the United States that may hereafter be captured by our forces in any of the States embraced in the proclamation, that they may be dealt with in accordance with the laws of those States, providing for the punishment of criminals engaged in exciting servile insurrections. In its political aspect this measure possesses great signification, and to it in this light I invite your attention. It affords to our people the complete and crowning proof of the true nature of the designs of the party which elevated to power the present occupant of the Presidential chair at Washington, and which sought to conceal its purposes by every variety of artful grace, and by the perfidious use of the most solemn and repeated pledges on every practicable occasion. He gives extracts from President Lincoln's inaugural, and comments fully upon the subsequent acts by Congress and the Administration.
Jeff had no use for emancipation and he considered any free blacks captured in Union service as fit subjects for slavery.
I figured we’d get a sic semper reference as it excites the rebel heart no end. Never mind that our army sic sempered your rebs from Missionary Ridge to Appomattox.
From Davis' December 24, 1862 proclamation:
Now therefore I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America and acting by their authority, appealing to the Divine Judge in attestation that their conduct is not guided by the passion of revenge but that they reluctantly yield to the solemn duty of repressing by necessary severity crimes of which their citizens are the victims, do issue this my proclamation, and by virtue of my authority as Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States do order--
...3. That all negro slaves captured in arms be at once delivered over to the executive authorities of the respective States to which they belong to be dealt with according to the laws of said States.
4. That the like orders be executed in all cases with respect to all commissioned officers of the United States when found serving in company with armed slaves in insurrection against the authorities of the different States of this Confederacy.
Merry freakin' Christmas.
Better they go to Andersonville?
As Obama makes clear he is the new Lincoln, one has to wonder if he aspires to cause a civil war in the name of “social justice” (fascist oppression) or if believes he is due to be killed. The the USA Commies, the next step of the civil rights movement is the suspension of the constitution for the glory of Utopia.
Thank you for posting that. It was what I thinking of when I made reference to Jeff’s attitude toward free blacks, an Enslavement Proclamation to counter Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. I wonder what Jim Limber thought about that one?
Considering the confederates propensity for shooting any black Union soldier who tried to surrender out of hand then I doubt many woound up either in slavery or Andersonville. But as soldiers I'm sure they would have preferred Andersonville with their white comrades to bondage.
As a black male in the Davis household I doubt he was allowed to think.
Oh joy, such comrade ship between the races in the Union Army!
Took you about 2 seconds to get to this one. Day of mourning for you I’m sure.
Being sent to Andersonville would mean that they were treated as men and as soldiers. Something the confederacy wouldn't think of doing to a black man under any circumstances.
That's because central_va pinged me to it. Link
Day of mourning for you I’m sure.
But not for you. I'm sure that day of mourning comes on the 26th.
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