Another View of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest

not only was lincoln a stone racist but also he HATED/FEARED "persons of colour", Quakers,Jews,Latinos, Asians & "muddy coloured people", i.e. "mixed race" people (like ME for example).

furthermore, a personal letter from lincoln to a MA politician stated that after the war was over that ALL the Blacks were to be deported back to Africa BUT that "the red savages, who are creatures without souls, must be EXTERMINATED to the last one" (emphasis MINE).

lincoln was anything BUT a decent person.

free dixie,sw

Still making this crap up as you go along, huh?

I think you are right. And slavery ended peacefully everywhere in the west except Haiti and the U.S.

Because the slaves in Haiti launched a rebellion to end slavery. And the slave owners in the U.S. launched a rebellion to protect slavery.

Forrest's speech during a meeting of the "Jubilee of Pole Bearers" is a story that needs to be told. Gen. Forrest was the first white man to be invited by this group which was a forerunner of today's Civil Right's group.

The only traces I can find today of the "Jubilee of Pole Bearers" are references to Forrest's speech. It may have been more of a social or fraternal organization, rather than a political group.

Forrest died of complications of diabetes in 1877. Maybe he was already ailing when he addressed the group. He'd gone bankrupt some years earlier when his railroad failed.

So perhaps Nathan Bedford Forrest was trying to get right with God. He may have felt guilty about something: "Men have come to me to ask for quarter, both black and white, and I have shielded them."

That adds something to our understanding of the man. But if Forrest helped create the conditions where White Southern politicians couldn't talk like this publicly to a Black organization for a century, that also shouldn't be ignored.

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