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To: Non-Sequitur

Just what is untruthful there.


16 posted on 02/13/2009 2:45:32 PM PST by hellbender
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To: hellbender
I agree with the premise of the article. I have always
thought that Lincoln believed that the ends
(preserving the Union) justified the means (ignoring
and/or flauting the Constitution of the United States).
The entire camel is now under the tent.
18 posted on 02/13/2009 3:54:03 PM PST by MamaLucci (I wanna party like it's nineteen ninety-four!)
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To: hellbender
Just what is untruthful there.

Where to begin? There's his judging Lincoln by todays standards of racism. His misquoting Lincoln to make it appear that he used the term 'ni**er' rather than quoting other or attributing the term to them. Lincoln himself never used the term in common conversation or in any of his correspondence. There's his claim that nobody was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. His selective quoting of Frederick Douglass out of context to make it appear that he thought Lincoln was no friend of the black man, the exact opposite is true. There's his claim that many historians agree that the South would have reunited with the North without a war, I don't know of a single historian who says that. His claim that all the founders thought unilateral secession was legal; I'm not aware of a single one who said that and Madison is very dismissive of the idea. Then there's the claim that Robert Lee detested slavery when he in fact believed that was the best condition for blacks to be in. The claim of tens of thousands of polticial prisoners, hundreds of newspapers closed down, and on and on and on. It's nothing more that a list of the top 100 Southron myths.

OK?

25 posted on 02/14/2009 4:52:00 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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