[Pelham]

Yeah, I know that it really irritates the Lincoln veneration society to quote his letter to Greeley.

What it shows is that Frederick Douglass was correct in what he said in his memorial to Lincoln, which is that Preserving The Union was Lincoln’s goal in waging war on the States that wanted to leave the Union.

Lincoln was not going to sit idly by and let that happen any more than King George III was going to let the American colonies leave.

George’s government even outdid Lincoln by issuing two emancipation proclamations, Dunmore in 1775 and Philipsburg in 1779.

[Ditto]

Yeah, I know that it really irritates the Lincoln veneration society to quote his letter to Greeley.

LOL. You Lost Causers are so predictable. Do you understand that Lincoln had the Emancipation Proclamation sitting in his desk waiting for a Union victory to release it.

You guys are such a joke.

[Ditto]

George’s government even outdid Lincoln by issuing two emancipation proclamations, Dunmore in 1775 and Philipsburg in 1779.

Again, you either distort and misstate, or you are terminally ignorant. Do you know what happened to those Blacks who enlisted in the British army at the end of the war with the promise of freedom? TheBritish got them out of America all right. They took them to their Caribbean islands and sold them back into slavery. Nice deal.

[HandyDandy]

”I know that it really irritates the Lincoln veneration society to MIS-quote his letter to Greeley.”
There, I fixed it. I have no problem with what Frederick Douglass said, or with the whole Lincoln quote. What bothers me is how often you cats think you are quoting Lincoln but leave off the final, closing sentence. That makes it a “clipped” quote. That is what irritates me. It’s odd that you all do that. Once again, here is the closing, final sentence in Lincoln’s letter to Greeley:
“I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free. Yours,
A. Lincoln.”

One can only conclude that those who leave off that last sentence are intending a modification of his oft-expressed wish that all men every where could be free.