Posted on 04/15/2025 7:06:29 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Something about a “sockdologizing old mantrap”.
Yeah, I might have a time machine and go back in time to kill Lincoln and save nearly a million people from death.
Sure. That might happen.
You don't like it because you, and pretty much all of us, have been taught that Lincoln is a hero.
If you look into it with an objective mind, you begin to realize he was a disaster.
The two-pronged U.S. would never have produced a Woodrow Wilson, to lie us into World War One, which led directly to World War Two.
This is exactly right.
What a lot of people don't grasp is that "slavery" wasn't the issue dividing the leadership of the North and the leadership of the South.
The Northern controlled congress passed the "Corwin Amendment" which would have made slavery permanent in the United States. They offered the South all the protection for slavery that was possible.
But what they would not tolerate is the South governing itself.
Independence from the Controlling Northern majority was not going to be allowed, and *THAT* is what the two sides fought over.
I doubt it. He was pronounced dead at 7:22 a.m. I imagine the NY Times had already gone to press by then.
” For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these:
‘What might have been ‘ “.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Lincoln was shot on Good Friday. If only he had gone to church instead to the theater to watch a comedy...
John Wilkes Booth was not a "rebel"--he was a Marylander. Maryland did not secede and he never fought for the Confederacy.
Yeah I’ve heard all the arguments .
Bottom line he was a hero .
Slavery was a disgusting abhorrent practice .
Also Titanic sinking anniversary April 14-15, 1912.
You know he was an atheist? His law partner (Herndon) made it clear that Lincoln didn't believe in religion.
When he went to church, it was just for show.
I find this very unlikely. I think you just absorbed what we have all been brainwashed with, and never thought to question it.
Bottom line he was a hero .
What heroic thing did he do?
Slavery was a disgusting abhorrent practice .
So it was, but it had nothing to do with why the Northern armies invaded the South.
They invaded the South to prevent the Southern states from escaping their economic control.
The war was over money, but the propaganda was all about slavery.
He needed to go to that play like he needed another hole in his head.
Fixed it.
I'm trying to grasp your point here, but I can see two ways to interpret it.
1. Conscription = slavery.
2. "Slavery" was used as propaganda tool in an effort to rally popular support after unpopular conscription was imposed.
3. It was a bait and switch. The war started out to “preserve the union”. When the volunteers were made into conscripts only then could the abolitionists have their war to end slavery.
That's true as well. All three are true.
During the war he starts talking about Providence. How much of that he actually believed, I don't know.
Politicians just going to church for show? Who could imagine that?
Most Northern whites were racists and weren't concerned with the slaves. Those who were politically astute realized that slavery made the plantation owners powerful and wanted to end the disproportionate influence the Southern plantation-owners had at the federal level. After the war the Reconstruction measures were designed to prevent the former Southern political elite from regaining power.
“ The war was over money, but the propaganda was all about slavery.”
Nonsense.
Revisionist history made up by slavery apologists.
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