[cowboyway]

If so, show respect for the President which defeated the pro-slavery insurrectionist's and saved America from being carved up by foreign powers.

And the Father of Centralized Government.

[donmeaker]

The father of centralized government could be Hamilton. Or FDR.

You blame the guy who was pushed into war by southern fire eaters, for marshalling the government power to defeat them. Mostly because you don't like the results.

If you don't like the draft, Jeff Davis did it first. If you don't like invading the territory of another state, the south did it first. Raising an army to fight against other states; south did that too.

Ordering farmers what crops to grow? South did that.

But rather than complain about centralization, you complain about Lincoln. Because he was right, and because he won.

[M. Espinola]

"And the Father of Centralized Government."

Self-appointed Jeff Davis was the godfather of the dictatorial slave empire (defeated).

The Nazis based their defeated dictatorship on race too.