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To: yazoo
You are of course researching anything that helps shed a bad light on Lincoln and if that is the best you can do, well, it’s the best you can do.

No, Peabrain. You see, I started off like you, northern educated, memorized the Gettysburg Address, worshiped at the Great Memorial in Washington, DC. But then I read some wacko history that said some awful things about the Great Man. This can't be, I thought. But some of those awful things I could verify even with an Encyclopedia Britannica. Since some were true I looked more deeply into the others, including this about Lincoln leaving his family ride on a train he believed might be attacked. The only "awful thing" I haven't verified to my satisfaction is the claim that Lincoln at one point ordered the arrest of Chief Justice Taney. I did eventually obtain George Brown's book which also makes this assertion, but I still have my doubts. The bottom line is that Lincoln was a scumbag and that the histories that most people read have been sanitized to obscure or hide this fact.

(FTR, I have never lived south of the metro NYC area.)

ML/NJ

129 posted on 02/15/2009 6:28:33 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

So on the basis of his train trip and vague assertions about arresting Taney you have decided Lincoln was a scumbag. Talk about peabrains!


130 posted on 02/15/2009 6:39:33 AM PST by yazoo
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