[republicanwizard]

Freepers, Friends, Republicans,

I think it is a real disappointment that we cannot discuss Abraham Lincoln on this site without being deluged with neo-Confederate partisans. If the attitudes that many of these posters express is indicative of what the beliefs of the Republican Party, conservatism, and FreeRepublic are, then slowly but surely I, and many like me, will come to disassociate ourselves with any of the three.

Please, don't let this forum become a fighting ground for NeoConfederates. Don't let conservatism be tained with bigotry. Don't stain the Declaration of Independence with the aspersions of the slavehound. Don't besmirch the memory of Lincoln with the invective of the traitors. This is my plea to all of you.

[oursacredhonor]

"Don't besmirch the memory of Lincoln..."

Since when is stating UNREFUTED facts about Lincoln besmirching his memory? Everything Natural Law stated in post #19 is historical fact.

[wardaddy]

Why are you whining....you baited them.

You could have just posted about Lincoln and left out the inviting editorializing.

I'm ambivalent about Lincoln....much like I am all US Presidents.....Washington comes closest to being relatively a sure-thing.

[subedei]

I think it is a real disappointment that we cannot discuss Abraham Lincoln on this site without being deluged with pseudo-facts or blind assumptions regarding his presidency. It is as if some people are actively seeking NOT to respond or acknowledge facts that may throw their own easy to swallow assumptions into wack.

"Please, don't let this forum become a fighting ground for NeoConfederates. Don't let conservatism be tained with bigotry. Don't stain the Declaration of Independence with the aspersions of the slavehound. Don't besmirch the memory of Lincoln with the invective of the traitors. This is my plea to all of you.".

This is absolutely hilarious. You tell people here not to "stain the Declaration of Independence with the aspersions of the slavehound.", who in the world do you think wrote the Declaration of Independence??? It was Thomas Jefferson. oh wait, he was both a slave owner and the leader of the Jeffersonian Republicans. It was the Jeffersonian Republicans who fought for ideals like Nullification and States Rights. But apparently Thomas Jefferson, John Taylor of Caroline, John C. Calhoun,
J.W. Randolph, Abel Parker Upshur, James Monroe and the many many others and their ideals should be ignored as if they didn't exist. Instead all those who fail to bow before the Lincoln shrine should be painted as a "slavehounds", "traitors", "Neo-confederates" or "Lords of the Lash"? How exactly is that reasonable or logical? You are seemingly ignorant of history and the ideological basis for sucession and its support by MANY of our founding fathers and instead use ad hominem attacks against those who disagree with your position. Bravo!!

"The future inhabitants of {both} the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we wish it. Events may prove otherwise; and if they see their interest in separating why should we take sides? God bless them both, and keep them in union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better." - Thomas Jefferson

"The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the States chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so..." - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy In America

[TexConfederate1861]

Sounds like the liberals have gotten to you. There are no "NEO" Confederates on Free Republic. Just Confederate-Americans that want to see constitutional government restored, and prefer history the way it really happened, not the Northern version that has been rammed down our throats since 1865.

[GOPcapitalist]

I think it is a real disappointment that we cannot discuss Abraham Lincoln on this site without being deluged with neo-Confederate partisans.

I find it far more disappointing that, according to some of the persons here, we should not be able to discuss anything about Abe Lincoln on this thread that is less than flattering no matter how factual it may be. I certainly don't recall any efforts to suppress dissenting views from threads about the south or CSA, yet curiously you insist upon a Lincoln thread where only blind idolatry is permitted.

[Gianni]

If the attitudes that many of these posters express is indicative of what the beliefs of the Republican Party, conservatism, and FreeRepublic are, then slowly but surely I, and many like me, will come to disassociate ourselves with any of the three.

Righty-O... See ya 'round then.

[iconoclast]

If the attitudes that many of these posters express is indicative of what the beliefs of the Republican Party, conservatism, and FreeRepublic are, then slowly but surely I, and many like me, will come to disassociate ourselves with any of the three.

What a blessed day that would be ... but all indicators are to the contrary.