Bump.
It’s also the day (night) the Titanic sank.
Another one of your confederate heroes?
First time I’ve heard the word “massive” used to describe the few scarecrows that decided not to carry on as guerillas and surrendered that day. Weren’t there only 20,000 left ?
If I recall correctly, Grant was also to have been a target as he was to have been in the box with Lincoln at the play, but he backed out at the last minute.
Lincoln is NOT short. Lincoln is TALL.
Incidentally, as you fly over Washington and look down at the memorials, the lincoln memorial is three times the size of the Jefferson memorial.
I guess the size of the positive memory is inversely proportional to the contribution to the Constitution Republic they served.
Yup. He’s still dead.
Other than that, how was the play?
Bump.
Live by the sword, die by the sword (or, in this case, pistol).
If Booth had missed, Lincoln would not be the great hero to BO and Blacks. He had a low opinion of ‘Negroes’ and planned to deport them all to Africa or South America.
If confederate president Jefferson Davis had been hung from the nearest tree the moment he was captured running away from Richmond in a woman’s dress, perhaps the lionization of Lincoln would have taken a different form.
Best thing that could have happened to ol' disHonest Abe, and the country, actually. Can you imagine what his legacy would have been if the Racist in Chief had lived through another term?
He would have exported blacks by the thousands, accelerated the centralization of government, continued to alienate the South with his extreme prejudicial governance, continued to ignore the Constitution and on and on.
If he hadn't been decently shot I can guarantee that there wouldn't have been that gawdy Lincoln Memorial. Hell, he probably would have ended up being tried and hanged for the war criminal that he was.
Wish they would release his DNA. Before I die, I’d love to know if my children are his cousins. 6 times removed.
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.
And Texxon is there.
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| Platform of the Alabama Democracy -- the first Dixiecrats wanted to be able to expand slavery into the territories. It was precisely the issue of slavery that drove secession -- and talk about "sovereignty" pertained to restrictions on slavery's expansion into the territories. | January 1860 |
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| Abraham Lincoln nominated by Republican Party | May 18, 1860 |
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| Abraham Lincoln elected | November 6, 1860 |
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| Robert Toombs, Speech to the Georgia Legislature -- "...In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. The country has expanded to meet this growing want, and Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, have received this increasing tide of African labor; before the end of this century, at precisely the same rate of increase, the Africans among us in a subordinate condition will amount to eleven millions of persons. What shall be done with them? We must expand or perish. We are constrained by an inexorable necessity to accept expansion or extermination. Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. All just reasoning, all past history, condemn the fallacy. The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death." | November 13, 1860 |
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| Alexander H. Stephens -- "...The first question that presents itself is, shall the people of Georgia secede from the Union in consequence of the election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency of the United States? My countrymen, I tell you frankly, candidly, and earnestly, that I do not think that they ought. In my judgment, the election of no man, constitutionally chosen to that high office, is sufficient cause to justify any State to separate from the Union. It ought to stand by and aid still in maintaining the Constitution of the country. To make a point of resistance to the Government, to withdraw from it because any man has been elected, would put us in the wrong. We are pledged to maintain the Constitution." | November 14, 1860 |
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| South Carolina | December 20, 1860 |
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| Mississippi | January 9, 1861 |
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| Florida | January 10, 1861 |
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| Alabama | January 11, 1861 |
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| Georgia | January 19, 1861 |
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| Louisiana | January 26, 1861 |
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| Texas | February 23, 1861 |
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| Abraham Lincoln sworn in as President of the United States |
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| Arizona territory | March 16, 1861 |
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| CSA Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, Cornerstone speech -- "...last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution -- African slavery as it exists amongst us -- the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the 'rock upon which the old Union would split.' He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact." | March 21, 1861 |
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| Virginia | adopted April 17,1861 ratified by voters May 23, 1861 |
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| Arkansas | May 6, 1861 |
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| North Carolina | May 20, 1861 |
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| Tennessee | adopted May 6, 1861 ratified June 8, 1861 |
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| West Virginia declares for the Union | June 19, 1861 |
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| Missouri | October 31, 1861 |
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| "Convention of the People of Kentucky" | November 20, 1861 |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/William_H._Seward
On April 14, 1865, Lewis Powell, an associate of John Wilkes Booth, attempted to assassinate Seward, the same night and at the same moment Abraham Lincoln was shot. Powell gained access to Seward's home by telling a servant, William Bell, that he was delivering medicine for Seward, who was recovering from a recent near-fatal carriage accident on April 5, 1865. Powell started up the stairs when then confronted by one of Seward's sons, Frederick. He told the intruder that his father was asleep and Powell began to start down the stairs, but suddenly swung around and pointed a gun at Frederick's head. After the gun misfired, Powell panicked, then repeatedly struck Frederick over the head with the pistol, leaving Frederick in critical condition on the floor.
Powell then burst into William Seward's bedroom with a bowie knife and stabbed him several times in the face and neck. Powell also attacked and injured another son (Augustus), a soldier (SGT George Robinson) who had been assigned to stay with Seward, and a messenger (Emerick Hansell) who arrived just as Powell was escaping.
During the attack Seward was wearing a jaw splint (often incorrectly reported as a "neck brace") as a result of the carriage accident, and it is said that this saved his life. However, he carried the facial scars from the attack for the remainder of his life. The events of that night took their toll on his wife, Frances, who died June 1865. His daughter Fanny died of tuberculosis in October 1866.
Powell was captured the next day and was executed on July 7, 1865, along with David Herold, David Atzerodt, Mary Surratt three other conspirators in the Lincoln assassination.
Although it took Seward several months to recover from his wounds, he emerged as a major force in the administration of the new president, Andrew Johnson, frequently defending his more moderate reconciliation policies towards the South, to the point of enraging Radical Republicans who once regarded Seward as their friend but now attacked him.