The Demagogic Party (and its online shills) started the Civil War, and continue their campaign of vilification.
Posted on 02/12/2024 11:09:57 AM PST by Rummyfan
Today is the anniversary of the birth of America’s great or greatest president, Abraham Lincoln. As a politician and as president, Lincoln was a profound student of the Constitution and constitutional history. Perhaps most important, Lincoln was America’s indispensable teacher of the moral ground of political freedom at the exact moment when the country was on the threshold of abandoning what he called its “ancient faith” that all men are created equal.
In 1858 Lincoln attained national prominence in the Republican Party as the result of the contest for the Senate seat held by Stephen Douglas. It was Lincoln’s losing campaign against Douglas that made him a figure of sufficient prominence that he could be the party’s 1860 presidential nominee.
At the convention of the Illinois Republican Party in June, Lincoln was the unanimous choice to run against Douglas. After declaring him their candidate late on the afternoon of June 16, the entire convention returned that evening to hear Lincoln speak. Accepting the convention’s nomination, Lincoln gave one of the most incendiary speeches in American history.
Lincoln electrified the convention, asserting that the institution of slavery had made the United States “a house divided against itself.” Slavery would either be extirpated or become lawful nationwide, Lincoln predicted, provocatively quoting scriptural authority to the effect that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” Demonstrating how it “changed the course of history,” Harry Jaffa calls it “[t]he speech that changed the world.”
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Lincoln was no hero and finally after a long time the truth finally is out there as what a Tyrant he really was.
There is also a book out there about what the Civil War was about and slavery was not the main reason.
I have this on my list to read there is also another book by the same author on Lincoln.
I think you’re special. Sorry. You’re the one straining and trying hard to not understand the logic of four score and seven years later.
I don’t think you’re really this obtuse.
He reminds of the kid in high school history class who didn’t read his homework assignment and yet constantly interrupted the teacher.
The Demagogic Party (and its online shills) started the Civil War, and continue their campaign of vilification.
Yeah. Something
Who’s the Birthday Boy!? It’s Abe! It’s Abe! It’s Honest Abe! Happy Birthday Abe! Thank you for preserving the Union!
Why don’t you read Freeper Ls’s book and Paul Johnson’s book. 2 Very Conservative sources.
The Slave system inpided Indusrry. It was purely Ag ucultural.
Happy Birthday, President Lincoln!
Gettysburg Address: 1863.
"Four Score and Seven years" = (4 x 20)+7, = 87 years.
1863 - 87 = 1776.
What happened in 1776?
A collection of Slave states declared Independence from a Union, (United Kingdom, Union of Crowns) Formed a confederacy, (Articles of Confederation) fought against the Union, (American war of Independence) The Union put forth an emancipation proclamation, (Lord Dunmore's proclamation) and the Confederacy's armies were led by a slave owning general from Virginia. (George Washington.)
So the year 1776 is celebrated because of *INDEPENDENCE*. The year 1776 had nothing to do with an oppressive Union government forcible subjugating people who wanted to be rid of it.
The Gettysburg address has completely flipped what happened in 1776 to make the oppressors (The Union) sound like the good guys instead of the bad guys.
This is what I mean when I say this is a con man bait and switch.
I will post tommorrow.
So we could have been replaced by the tyrant Jeff Davis.
Yeah Reb. Good choice.
LOL! Unlike Lincoln, Davis wasn't a tyrant and didn't start a bloody war to impose his rule on people who did not consent to it.
Indeed, overrated. Mostly because of PC religion over black people.
Washington was the greatest. Doesn’t matter he had slaves.
His own wife called him a ‘’nervous dyspeptic by habit'' and he sought to impose his will on anyone, including Southerners who opposed him, John Minor Botts chief among them. Fulminate all you want Reb. The balance sheet still comes up as your side having lost the war it started. Making you and your ilk losers by extension.
Jackson, Polk, Washington, Reagan.
He most certainly was.
Very little? States abolished slavery or put themselves on the road to abolition. Jefferson wanted to blame King George for slavery and the slave trade, though the Continental Congress took those words out of the Declaration. Washington eventually did free his slaves. Hamilton's friend, John Laurens wanted emancipation in South Carolina. Abolitionist societies were formed. Slavery was banned in the Northwest Territories, and the Constitution authorized an end to the slave trade in 1808. Foreigners like Lafayette and Kościuszko did what they could to help Americans live up to their professed values and convictions.
Not in 1776 they didn't. Massachusetts started their Judicial activism after 1780, but this wasn't the same as the people voting to get rid of it.
Trying to make 1776 and the Declaration of Independence about slavery is dishonest.
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