Countdown until the Lincoln haters arrive (I’m not one).
>>Countdown until the Lincoln haters arrive (I’m not one).<<
It would certainly be fair to say I am not as fond of his legacy as others seem to be since I feel the War of Northern Aggression violated the very principle of self determination on which the American revolution was based.
But I can admire certain aspects. As a relative said, at least Lincoln put 30,000 northern Democrats in prison without trials, lawyers, charges or due process... that’s something.
Lincoln, Mercury, Ford...They’re all the same.
I'm not a Lincoln hater. In fact, I'm one of the more moderate members of FR. So I can appreciate Lincoln's great achievements while also deploring the worst. As a classical liberal like the Founders (the very antithesis of today's very illiberal "liberals"), I vehemently disagree with Lincoln's decision to maintain the union by force. The states created the federal compact and, in my view, had every right to dissolve or withdraw from it.
The nation Lincoln was elected to serve in 1960 was a vastly different nation from the one he bequeathed to posterity by the time of his death in 1864. In some respects, such as ending slavery, the changes wrought by Lincoln have been highly beneficial. In many other respects, they have not and, in fact, have led inexorably to the drastically bloated, overreaching federal monstrosity we have today.
Anyway, I love history and am delighted to see this photograph come to light.