Now he belongs to the ages....
At the time of his death, he was not loved by most of the country. The South, of course, were not fans of his. And in the North, he had few followers.
Being shot in a theatre on Good Friday, in those days, was akin to being caught in a Strip Club on a Sunday.
But, he is now recognized as the country’s greatest president, having stayed the course in keeping the Union together.
As a tangent, the frequent news regarding the sesquicentennial of Lincoln’s death and the end of the Civil War reminded me that the arrest, trial and execution of Mary Surratt, George Adzerodt, and the other conspirators took 7 weeks. It was by every account and fair and open trial.
Contrast that with the so-called “justice” being displayed in the Boston Marathon bombing to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He is, without a doubt, and by his own admission, guilty - yet we are now beyond 2 years, and the process will still grind on for many months more. How is that justice?
You mean it wasn’t on November 23, 1863, in an open convertible outside an early version of the Texas Schoolbook Depository? Those Lincoln-Kennedy conspirators were asleep on the job!
Besides that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
It was George Bush’s fault.
FWIW, Google chose to commemorate the 155th anniversary of the Pony Express instead.
0bama and his minions look to Lincoln as a justification to repress his opposition.
The South would have eventually have abolished slavery, and there were even some black troops, promised manumission, that fought for the South.
Lincoln and the first civil war established the nation as an indissolvable union. In our current state of affairs, the established and inflexible principle of a perpetual union is hazardous because the only means of separation necessitates violence. Without secession, and without the dim prospect of meaningful reformation of the government and constitutional restoration, the only legal option for relief is leaving the country- not an easy prospect for most citizens. I would also argue that the legal right and possibility of secession acts as a check to abusive central government. Along with abolishing slavery, Lincoln abolished any reasonable possibility of amicable and peaceful secession.
The weight of history is heavy, and Lincoln’s legacy has solidified the primacy of the central government; a government today that abuses its citizens in ways that would probably be inconceivable to Lincoln.
Some people have his date of death on the 14th but like you said he died the next morning on the 15th which is his official date of death. Either way, a Republican President who was really really hated by a Democrat actor. My oh my, some things never change.
I now know he was an opportunistic tyrant that suspended the bill of rights and ultimately destroyed the concept of the United States -- that States were UNITED and INDEPENDENT.
May he burn in hell.
BTW, Booth is the model early movies used as the villain and later on in cartoons. I think to this day he is still used as a villain in comics.
Was the play any good. I never have read a review of it...
Carl Sandburg on Lincoln:
“During the four years of time before he gave up the ghost, this man was clothed with despotic power, commanding the most powerful armies till then assembled in modern warfare, enforcing drafts of soldiers, abolishing the right of habeas corpus, directing politically and spiritually the wild, massive forces loosed in civil war. Four billion dollars’ worth of property was taken from those who had been legal owners of it, confiscated, wiped out as by fire, at his instigation and executive direction: a class of chattel property recognized as lawful for two hundred years went to the scrap pile.”
Ping
LINCOLN killed states rights....
and now we are paying the price...
tyranical federal government
violating the Constitution at every chance..
Lincoln assassination is a cause for celebration.