Abe says we have a problem.. he explains from "the other side."
You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Dubious as to whether Lincoln was born in that log cabin on that day and year, and whether Thomas Lincoln was his father.
His marriage to Mary Todd is what made him - people disparaged her because she was the other, necessary half of his Mr Nice Guy persona.
He was smart and ruthless.
This is inaccurate. In the Emancipation Proclamation he stated, " And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages."
Good article, but he greatly over-simplifies the story of the formation of the Republican Party.
It was in reality formed from northern Whigs, after the disintegration of that party, a good many northern Democrats who couldn’t stomach their party’s submission to the slaveocracy any longer, and parts of the American or Know-Nothing Party, a short-lived anti-immigrant group that did amazingly well in the mid-1850s but then fell apart.
About all the various factions making up the new Republican Party had in common at first was opposition to the spread of slavery.
Good article, but he greatly over-simplifies the story of the formation of the Republican Party.
It was in reality formed from northern Whigs, after the disintegration of that party, a good many northern Democrats who couldn’t stomach their party’s submission to the slaveocracy any longer, and parts of the American or Know-Nothing Party, a short-lived anti-immigrant group that did amazingly well in the mid-1850s but then fell apart.
About all the various factions making up the new Republican Party had in common at first was opposition to the spread of slavery.
My opinion is Lincoln was a warrior. Churchill thought Lincoln did not give his generals enough chance to prove themselves but I think he was a natural warrior who could not understand why his generals did not understand war and did not have any patience with them for that reason. He went through generals until he found the ones who saw things the way he saw them.
Thanks for posting a great article.
It reflects my opinion, exactly.
The one thing that Lincoln lovers cannot deny, is that Lincoln settled the question as to whether we would we be collection of sovereign states with a weak central government or a strong central (federal) government where states were considered to be weak, geopolitical subsets answering to their masters in Washington. Once that was settled, the slide down the slippery slope to socialism/communism has grown increasingly faster with each passing year.
Thanks, Abe.