Lincoln is shot

history channel ^ | 4/15/2010 | history channel

[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.

[Idabilly]

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.

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We're still here. Y'all can suck on that reconstruction education all you want to. I'm Proud to say: My Kin were documented Reb's to your Socialist Empire!

[mojitojoe]

Obsessed much?

[Non-Sequitur]

Obsessed much?

Not as much as you apparently. If I didn't know better I'd say you were stalking me.

[mojitojoe]

Obsessed, completely obsessed with Southerners. Jealousy, that’s all it is. You are so hate filled it must eat you alive.

[Non-Sequitur]

Jealousy, that’s all it is.

Jealousy? You mean you think that I'm sorry I'm not like you? ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!

[Idabilly]

Abraham Lincoln - Tyrant

Prior to taking the reins of power as the world's first economic fascist, Lincoln devoted his entire career to the establishment of a central bank. As a new Republican, he was able to establish a cental bank and implement the failed 'corporate welfare' policies of the Whig party, financed through the printing of paper ignorantly perceived as money.Upon taking office Lincoln committed a series of unconstitutional acts Including launching an invasion of the South without consulting Congress, as required by the Constitution; declaring martial law; blockading the Southern ports; suspending the writ of habeas corpus for the duration of his administration; imprisoning without trial thousands of Northern citizens; arresting and imprisoning newspaper publishers who were critical of him; censoring all telegraph communication; nationalizing the railroads; creating several new states without the consent of the citizens of those states; ordering federal troops to interfere with the elections in the North by intimidating Democratic voters; deporting a member of Congress, Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, for criticizing the administration's income tax proposal at a Democratic Party rally; confiscating private property; confiscating firearms in violation of the Second Amendment; and effectively gutting the ninth and 10th amendments to the Constitution, among other things.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

We're still here. Y'all can suck on that reconstruction education all you want to. I'm Proud to say: My Kin were documented Reb's to your Socialist Empire!

In a world filled with international predators and dangers, I think it's a good thing that Lincoln kept us all on the same team even though some of you rebs often forget it. There's a bigger world and bigger dividing lines out there than the Mason-Dixon.

[central_va]

There's a bigger world and bigger dividing lines out there than the Mason-Dixon.

What good is it to be all together in a socialist s-hole. Better to be smaller and freer than big and shackled together.

It's no fun being the world's policeman when your own neigberhood is being punked.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I have no doubt that the greatest anti-bank Democrat, Andrew Jackson, would have gladly sided with Lincoln against the secessionists. Given his words during the Nullification Crisis, Old Hickory’s main complaint against Lincoln would have been that Lincoln did not go far enough in arresting and hanging rebels. Disunion overwhelmed economic policy for a practical man like Jackson. Many of Lincoln’s most vocal present day critics have spent too many years staring at academic economic diagrams to have the proper perspective to evaluate the actions of Lincoln.

[rockrr]

“Many of Lincoln’s most vocal present day critics have spent too many years staring at academic economic diagrams to have the proper perspective to evaluate the actions of Lincoln.”

...or staring directly into the sun...

[central_va]

...or staring directly into the sun...

... and you boot licks drinking bong water. Am I banned yet?

[Idabilly]

Many of Lincoln’s most vocal present day critics have spent too many years staring at academic economic diagrams to have the proper perspective to evaluate the actions of Lincoln.

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Evaluate? OK...

[Idabilly]

[central_va]

The math isn’t that hard to do.....

[MagnoliaB]

My sentiments exactly.

[MagnoliaB]

LOL!

[mojitojoe]

Kind of like this guy:
Lincoln met with 5 free black ministers on August 14, 1862, the first time a delegation of their race was invited to the White House on a matter of public policy. Lincoln made no effort to engage in conversation with the visitors, who were informed that they had been invited to listen. Lincoln did not mince words and told the group:

“You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated. It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated.”
An excellent site for black resettlement, Lincoln went on, was available in Central America. It had good harbors and an abundance of coal that would permit the colony to be quickly put on a firm financial footing. The President concluded by asking the delegation to determine if a number of freedmen with their families would be willing to go as soon as arrangements could be made.

On New Year’s Day, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation. Contrary to what its title suggests, it did not immediately free a single slave. It “freed” only slaves who were under Confederate control, and explicitly exempted slaves in Union controlled territories, including federal occupied areas of the Confederacy, West Virginia, and the four slave holding states that remained in the Union. It emancipated slaves where it couldn’t reach them, and left them in bondage where it could have set them free. The picture of Lincoln using a stroke of the pen to lift the shackles from the limbs of four million slaves is ludicrously false.

[mojitojoe]

Did I miss something? Where does this article say it’s a celebration? You’re a nut.

[rockrr]

There’s no end to what you miss. Must be “interesting” for you to go through life so unaware...

[cowboyway]

I looked up Metaphoridiot. Nothing in the dictionary.

Try rockrr's dictionary. I'm sure there will be a complete definition including a picture of you and rockrr wearing your moronic grins.