To: GeronL; Stoat
"The Civil War was entirely unnecessary"? Tell that to African Americans.
Lincoln was, as his former enemy and then Secretary of War Stanton said upon Old Abe's deathbed: "There lies the greatest leader the world has ever known."
5 posted on
02/12/2005 10:42:33 PM PST by
Californiajones
("The apprehension of beauty is the cure for apathy" - Thomas Aquinas)
To: Californiajones
The north didn't treat African-Americans all that much better than the South. Oh and what about the thousands of blacks who also owned slaves?
What Lincoln did ended up giving the left the excuse and precedent they needed to have the Feds take over everything.
6 posted on
02/12/2005 10:45:58 PM PST by
GeronL
(I'm thinking, I'm thinking!)
To: Californiajones
Did he say that too? The more famous deathbed quote is "Now he belongs to the ages."
18 posted on
02/13/2005 4:59:08 AM PST by
Molly Pitcher
(We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*)
To: Californiajones
"The Civil War was entirely unnecessary"? Tell that to African Americans.
Which group? Thousands--both slave and free--fought for the Confederacy.
26 posted on
02/13/2005 1:36:41 PM PST by
sheltonmac
("Duty is ours; consequences are God's." -Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson)
To: Californiajones
Here is one for the record books. One of my friends who teaches with me has a neighbor who teaches in the Atlantic Ciy, NJ school district. She was ordered by the principal to take down a hallway bulletin board she put up on Abe Lincoln.
She was told that Lincoln had nothing to do with Black History.
51 posted on
02/14/2005 5:50:15 PM PST by
mware
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