Posted on 02/12/2005 9:48:06 PM PST by Stoat
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Oh please. Lincoln was a good man but the Civil War was entirely unncessary. He isn't one of my hero's.
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Well, at least you're using the word 'please' which appears to be beyond many people's abilities these days :-)
Lincoln was a good man but the Civil War was entirely unncessary.
I suppose we could say that all wars are ultimately unnecessary then I guess. This, however, opens up a very large can of worms which is / are irrelevant to the essay.
He isn't one of my hero's.
No one is suggesting that Lincoln or anyone else needs to be your hero.
What Lincoln did ended up giving the left the excuse and precedent they needed to have the Feds take over everything.
If you like the history of Lincoln then you know a little something about John Brown.
On a PBS documentry I learned that as a young democrat, John Wilks Booth, who later shot and killed Lincoln, had snuck into the closed hanging of John Brown some years earlier.
PBS also had links to the word of the original song "John Brown's Body" which I recorded. It's up online if you want to listen to it.
After Julia Ward Howe heard northern soldiers singing the
original version of the song as they marched, she wrote her
own words to it's tune. Soon after, her version, was
published in the "Atlantic Monthly" as "The Battle Hymn of
the Republic."
I think the song it's self makes a statement about the Republican party.
If you want to download it and listen to it it's at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007N2QFW/002-0943539-6424030?v=glance
Being as you know the history of the time I think you'll find it interesting.
As I've read, the Republican party was founded by abolitionists who wanted to end slavery because they believed that all men were born of God to be free and by Kansas land owners who wanted to end slavery because they believed in free trade. The first Republican to be elected President was Abraham Lincoln.
Don't believe everything you read.
In 1854, anti-slavery activists organized themselves into a new political party, the Republican party.
It's in all the encyclopedias. And the first Republican President to be elected was Abram Lincoln.
I know Lincoln was the first Republican president. I also know they were partly formed by abolitionist. I was saying just because they were anti-slave doesn't give them the right to lauch a unconstitution war against the South.
Besides the North doesn't have a history of treating black well either. You can read that in books as well.
As it turned out, it ended up being one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to this country. IMHO
Freeing thousands from the bonds of human slavery is a wonderful thing! :)
Yes, sadly there are racists everywhere. It will be a blessid day on this earth when that no longer exists! : )
In one sense the war was unnecessary. Research has confirmed what I have never doubted: a fraction of the material cost of the war would have been enough to buy the freedom of every slave in the United States. Lincoln proposed exactly this, but it seems that almost nobody else was interested, North or South.
Neither of those points has any bearing on the rectitude of slavery as it existed at the time in question or the desirability of eliminating it or preventing its expansion.
Did he say that too? The more famous deathbed quote is "Now he belongs to the ages."
War was inevitable. If the South would have been allowed to leave the Union, there would have been ongoing border wars, innumerable disputes, grievances over commerce and trade. The longer the war was put off the more would have died when the war to end the issue finally took place. Lincoln was the Greatest President this nation ever had, followed by Washington, and then Reagan.
The South would have ended slavery in time as well. Slavery was dying all over Europe. That's the only reason Britian and others did not help the south. Robert E. Lee was against slavery, he was fighting for his homeland. Lincoln set a horrible example by invading the south and making it be part of the Union. The old Soviet Union and others used Lincoln as reason to keep their territories from breaking away. US complained about that but it had no problem with Lincoln doing it.
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