“Oh how we need a Lincoln today! I still mourn for the great man.”
Your post is going to bring out the Lincoln haters here on FR. There are many of them.
Yep, Lincoln enabled Sherman and his atrocites in 1864. That drops him 30 spots on the presidental list IMO
Did the Constitution, written scarcely 70 years prior to the war, give the states the right to secede if they decided the federal government no longer served their needs? Did Lincoln ignore that in order to “preserve the Union”?
Should I care? If those are die-hard confederates they should be reminded that Lincoln (flawed human being that he was) would have been magnanimaous toward the South, which, of course, is what he advocated and planned. As for what is more likely, his seizing of extraordinary powers for which he is often faulted, his motives were not self-aggrandizement but preservation the union (all of it).
Got one here! Lincoln began the systematic power grab of the federal government that continues today. He gave in to the Northern industrialists and passed the Morill Tariff, which effectively bankrupted many Southerners, not to mention his aggression towards the South. Thanks to Virginia Governor Bob McDonell for reinstating Confederate history month in that state...
CNY-proud great grandson of 2LT W.E. Smith, 2nd Tennessee Infantry CSA wounded at Shiloh...