Posted on 02/25/2005 10:16:03 AM PST by Publius
I agree with most of what you say. I will say, however, that many overlook the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation did not free ONE slave in the Union slave states. Further, slavery was made an issue only when it was feared that Europe would become involved. The leftist professors have done one hell of a job revising history in many respects .... and they still have a hold on many here on the FR! Sad, but true. The politically correct stance on this issue is to demonize all things Confederate. A true student of history sees things differently however.
Seattle scum and Yankee filth go hand in hand.
As your last paragraph shows, the left uses linguistics to gain and keep power. Once that is achieved there is little need to go to the trouble of "systematic exclusion" through linguistics. Then it is done by force.
May I disagree? I think Lincoln had the total abolition of slavery by any means necessary on his mind for quite some time.
This is where I disagree with the "Lincoln was a moderate", "Lincoln was an opportunist" crowds. He conceived, IMHO, a plan when the Republican Party was still out of power, and he executed it during the course of the 1860 campaign and the descent into war, to go outside the Constitution and impose the solution that, in his letters, he had concluded in 1855 could not be achieved by legal means within the Constitution.
IOW, Lincoln started the war in the first place, and he made sure it looked like the damn Rebels did it -- like that immortal movie line of George C. Scott's.
Lincoln was going to send them all to Liberia.
Nonsense.
I can provide more sources to educate you if you would like.
Yeah, I've read them all. But unlike you I've gone further and read Lincoln's speeches and writings on the subject in context. Lincoln was a believer in voluntary colonization, emphasis on the voluntary. No secret there. Colonization plans enjoyed widespread support for decades before the rebellion, and in his support for colonization Lincoln was no different than men like Robert Lee, who paid passage to Liberia for some of his former slaves. But Lincoln was different from men like Lee, who believed that slavery was the best place for blacks and his support for voluntary colonization is a far cry from your claim that Lincoln was for forced deportation. In that you're confusing Lincoln with Jefferson Davis.
I'm sure this hammerhead flies the Hammer and Sickle over his property.
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