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To: DoodleDawg

History tells us that Lincoln was a politically ambitious lawyer who eagerly prostituted himself to northern industrialists who were unwilling to pay world prices for their raw materials and who, rather than practice real capitalism, enlisted brute government force — “sell to us at our price or pay a fine that’ll put you out of business” — for dealing with uncooperative southern suppliers. That’s what a tariff’s all about. In support of this “noble principle”, when southerners demonstrated what amounted to no more than token resistance, Lincoln caused an internal war to begin that butchered more Americans than all of this country’s foreign wars — before or afterward — rolled into one.

Lincoln saw the introduction of total war on the American continent — indiscriminate mass slaughter and destruction without regard to age, gender, or combat status of the victims — and oversaw the systematic shelling and burning of entire cities for strategic and tactical purposes. For the same purposes, Lincoln declared, rather late in the war, that black slaves were now free in the south — where he had no effective jurisdiction — while declaring at the same time, somewhat more quietly but for the record nonetheless, that if maintaining slavery could have won his war for him, he’d have done that, instead.


35 posted on 11/23/2017 9:31:55 AM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type) We won! Ok, Donald, let's ROLL!)
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To: patriot08

Your “history” is pure revisionism.


36 posted on 11/23/2017 9:47:56 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: patriot08

Yeah, Southern revisionism not withstanding you completely ignored my question. Your claim was that slavery could have been ended peacefully and in a short period of time. I wanted to know how. That’s what I was looking for, not a dump of the usual Lost Cause “Lincoln was the devil incarnate” crap. How about it?


37 posted on 11/23/2017 10:06:55 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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