Some people just can't move on after 140 years. Too bad they can't realize that President Lincoln was the best friend the South had in Washington. His death resulted in Reconstruction being just as damaging as the war itself.
You oughta be ASHAMED. Sully Ross is probably turning over in his grave.
Lincoln was NO friend to Texas. I prefer to remember the 70,000 Texans who served under General Lee....or the 540 or so that DIED in Miller's Cornfield at Sharpsburg.
Yeah, that's why "some people" go back after 50 years and seek out Medal of Honor winners, and other "some people" want to work on cold cases -- because they were crimes, and because justice delayed, etc. If something's been broke for 140 years, it's time to get out the Elmer's.
Too bad they can't realize that President Lincoln was the best friend the South had in Washington.
You're joking, right? You mean before, or after Lincoln won? Caesar once laid down that it's just good policy, when dominating and overmastering someone, to show them a great deal of liberality and open-hanededness -- sort of like training a horse, so one can ride on his back. It's something Americans know not to accept, coming from a military strongman.
His measures during the war were rather more.......draconian. Try reading up on the Confiscation Act, for example.
His death resulted in Reconstruction being just as damaging as the war itself.
This is arguable, and for any number of reasons. Andrew Johnson persisted, artlessly, with Lincoln's policy for about 18 months after Richmond fell, after which "presidential Reconstruction" was succeeded by "congressional Reconstruction", which was the eagles ripping the South's liver out every day for several years.
Both policies had one element in common: both made free men their playthings, reducing the whites in the South to the level of the emancipated slaves, who, with their descendants, have never known what it was to be a free man in Jacksonian America, the America described by DeTocqueville.
Come to think of it, neither have we.