Lincoln's attacks upon Texas' borders in the Mexican War - It's one of those things that even the most avid Lincoln cultist never has a straight answer for. Lincoln used his position as a congressman to give AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY of the United States and of Texas during the Mexican War. All these "Lincoln had to defend American sovereignty" types overlook the fact that Lincoln himself took Mexico's position WRT the Texas border in 1846.
You here that capitan? In 1846 American troops were fighting and dying to defend the border of the United States at the Rio Grande. The Mexicans even crossed that border and FIRED THE FIRST SHOT (sound familiar?) onto those troops who were doing nothing more than occupying a defensive position on U.S. soil at a place where a hostile enemy had been invading and raiding for the better part of a decade. And what does Lincoln do in the middle of all this? He stands on the floor of the House of Representatives, claims that Texas doesn't have a right to the Rio Grande border and should draw back somewhere around the Nueces, makes a not so subtle implication that Texas didn't properly win its independence in the first place by erroniously suggesting that the Treaty of Velasco was illegitimate, and more or less sticks it to the thousands of American troops who were down there putting their lives on the line to protect the good people of Texas!
Abe Lincoln was a regular Dennis Kucinich of his day and did everything you accuse the copperheads and confederates of and worse during a time of war by giving material aid and comfort to an enemy that was actively trying to wrest away about a third of the State of Texas - something that Lincoln evidently had no problem with whatsoever.
Is this screed about the "spot resolution"?
i didn't know about that & i'm a TEXICAN, born & bred.
free dixie,sw