[cowboyusa]

Here we go, you have kicked over a lost cost hornets nest.

[caver]

Yea, he just opened it up to all of the Lincoln haters on FR.

[oldvirginian]

I believe you were looking for lost “cause”?

While I have no great love or adoration for Lincoln, I look on his assassination as the last and cruelest stroke against the southern states.
Lincoln was determined to bring the former Confederate states back into the Union as easily and gently as possible. With Lincoln dead there was no one to hold the northern fire breathers in line and the rape of the south became policy.