Posted on 10/04/2019 11:30:12 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Lincoln as a frightened raccoon, Punch, January 11, 1862 (Library of Congress)
A timely post. Thank you.
He was a detrrmined individual and shrewd.
Saved the union by destroying the Constituion.
General William Tecumseh Sherman knew full well, the evilness of the media, and did everything he could to make their life miserable.
Exactly.
A bit more patience and slavery would have been eradicated in the South, by the South, in 10 maybe 20 years at the most. There were FAR more abolitionist societies in the South than the North.
Now, I find the concept of slavery completely odious, but the civil war was absolutely the greater of two evils.
Lincoln - second worst President ever.
I visited the Lincoln museum in Springfield and along one corridor wall there were scores of vicious editorial cartoons and nasty editorials displayed.
After correcting your misspellings, I disagree.
He didn't destroy the Constitution, he did kick it in the balls.
It yelped, laid down and and recovered.
The USA was under assault then, as it is now, and Honest Abe, took extreme measures, and they worked.
Destroyed the Constitution, HELL NO, it is still working, you stupid ...
Odd that The Atlantic, a flagship of lefty MSM propaganda, would run an article that can be applied to our current president.
Pretty cool.
Uh oh. You triggered the anti-Abe mob.
Incoming.
Please forgiventhe typos. Working on a teentiny keyboard and zcreen.
Don’t forget the advances in modern funeraries, thanks to his financing the war by selling officers’ bodies back to families.
https://connectingdirectors.com/54261-lincoln-embalming
Not surprisingly the article you linked to did not contain that outright falsehood about selling officer bodies to finance the war. Was that claim your own creation or did you find it somewhere?
And you base that on what exactly?
There were FAR more abolitionist societies in the South than the North.
Source please?
Strike 3, you’re OUT.
Focus your condemnation and condescension on another freeper.
Better luck in 2024.
He broke the amendment process. There was no possible way that states would willingly vote for the 13th amendment, and using the Army to threaten states to do as Washington DC directed them is not a valid constitutional means of ratifying an amendment.
Then there were the threats and bribes he put forth to do it.
I think breaking the ratification process is defacto breaking the constitution, and Lincoln flat out defied Article IV, section 2.
Wait until the statue destroyers start reading Lincoln’s quotes, and actual feelings, on the black race.
Maybe they’ll create a plaza where the Lincoln Memorial now stands, and fly rainbow flags.
And at least the original confederates were honest about the reasons why they were seceding.
But the North wasn't honest about the reasons why they stopped them.
On the other hand, do you think the Southern states did that voluntarily? I find that hard to believe, because the long standing narrative was that they fought a war or something to preserve slavery, so it strikes me as implausible that they would simply give up something they supposedly sacrificed so many people to protect.
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