Posted on 09/10/2005 4:46:12 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
No, he is perfectly serious in believing that Lincoln's saving the country was worse than slavery!
No...I am not...it really depends upon your point of view.
From my view and the view of my ancestors, Lincoln usurped his authority, and destroyed a way of life, yes, not a perfect one, but one of my ancestors lost everything, including his brother, in the defense of Southern Rights.
For once, we are in PERFECT agreement.:)
No...but it certainly was close to it....
Jefferson Davis was MUCH more of a dictator than Lincoln could ever be accused of being.
A fourteen year old has a better response.
Given the fact that you defend treasonous RATS you should not be surprized. Insane treasonous rats spewing their poisonous would naturally be right up your alley.
"...poisonous bilge..."
No he is entirely serious. At the name "Lincoln" these people start frothing at the mouth like mad dogs.
I particularly like the CornfedeRAT draft which drafted the poor Ridgerunners and excused the largest owners of slaves who had dragged the duped and deranged South into their Treason.
Complete crap. Washington's Farewell address was directed at potential secession. Read it sometime. He would have sent troops just as fast as Abe but any opposition would have collapsed at the word he was in the field.
Such falsehoods are indicative of the depths of desperation to which the defenders of Slaverocracy will stoop.
Better be nice....your Yankee backside is starting to show.
If you disagree, then fine....
This is a debate, not something personal.
You need to wake up from your Yankee dreamworld.
Washington was a slaveowner and a Southerner, and a VIRGINIAN. He would have never made war on his own people.
But those people in the Union army were Americans of recent immigration, not foreign armies under foreign command who would have been glad to see the subjugation of America. Jefferson Davis and company were not disrupters of the Union, but they were traitors against the peace, freedom and independence of the whole American people.
Washington was a nationalist. All Americans were his countrymen. He recognized that the nation must be united to survive and prosper. Unlike many later Southerners, Washington's vision extended beyond the slave shack and plantation boundary.
I wouldn't disagree that many slave owners were not cruel. But who among us would want to submit to slavery on the likelihood that we would get a kind owner?
Men weren't meant to be property- not even of a kind owner.
"For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations." -- George Washington, 1796
Lincoln didn't make war on his own people, Davis did. Washington wouldn't have supported his rebellion, especially one over slavery.
Even more sad that reconstruction abuses created a "solid South" in the first place, but I guess we don't talk about that.
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