[lentulusgracchus]

Yet, someone had to put those politicans into power.

The same people who thought Ozzie Myers was really going to serve them when they elected him.

If you want to go on about the low quality of 19th-century politicians, you might look at the career of a prominent Republican, Roscoe Conkling of New York. Big Lincoln backer, he.

[fortheDeclaration]

Alright,let us say that it was the poor quality of southern leadership that led the South into a ill-advised attempt to secede.

So why are so many on these threads attempting to justify their decision to drag the South, slaveowner and poor white into diaster?

It is they and not Lincoln who are to blame for the South's woes.