If not for myths then what would people around here have to talk about when it came to the threads about the Southern rebellion? Take this thread, for example. "Lee himself never purchased or owned any slaves." Lee most certainly did, and Douglas Southall Freeman details as much in his biography of Lee. "In fact if you had asked him, he would have told you he was opposed to slavery." Mildly opposed, perhaps. But as late as 1865 he was saying that slavery was the best situation for blacks in the Confederate States. "Lincoln was a realist who would have done just about anything to save the Union, including tossing the constitution out the window, which he frequently did." That's just nonsense. "Two years after emancipation, Lincoln was concocting ways for the black population to be relocated to British Colonies in the Caribbean before he was assassinated." As is that. "What if Lincoln was more of a racist than Lee?" Depends on how you would define it. If you define it by today's standards than everyone back then - Lee, Lincoln, Jackson, whomever - is a stone racist. If you define it by the standards of the times then Lincoln looks pretty good compared with his peers.
Most people don’t have enough fingers or toes to count all the factual errors the author alleges in his rant.
Lee never purchased slaves. He inherited them.
Lincoln did throw away the constitution, as in the case when he arrested the Maryland legislature because it was pro-secession. And, here’s Honest Abe’s executive order shutting down NY journalists:
Major-General John A. Drx,
Commanding at New York:
Whereas there has been wickedly and traitorously printed and published this morning in the New York World and New York Journal of Commerce, newspapers printed and published in the city of New York, a false and spurious proclamation purporting to be signed by the President and to be countersigned by the Secretary of State, which publication is of a treasonable nature, designed to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States and to the rebels now at war against the Government and their aiders and abettors, you are therefore hereby commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison in any fort or military prison in your command the editors, proprietors, and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers, and all such persons as, after public notice has been given of the falsehood of said publication, print and publish the same with intent to give aid and comfort to the enemy; and you will hold the persons so arrested in close custody until they can be brought to trial before a military commission for their offense. You will also take possession by military force of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce, and hold the same until further orders, and prohibit any further publication therefrom.
A. LINCOLN.
Keep up the hero worship of the tyrant Lincoln.