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To: achilles2000
Horowitz falls far short of “knowing his history” regarding Lincoln. Thomas DiLorenzo does a good job of collecting Lincoln’s more interesting dictatorial actions.

Note what Horowitz says:

On May 18, 1864 Abraham Lincoln issued an executive order to arrest some of the journalists and editors of two New York publications that printed and published what they knew to be a forged Presidential proclamation calling for 400,000 more troops and a new draft. It was an act of treason to raise up resistance to the Union during a time of war. The act warranted imprisonment.

Did Tommy Delusional tell you that in his books?

Maybe Tommy's the one in need of a history lesson.

8 posted on 10/24/2009 11:06:36 AM PDT by x
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To: x

Lincolnoltry is a disease. You evidently are afflicted. Try to read beyond Harry Jaffa and Claremont, if you read.

Btw, do you have something in particular that DiLorenzo wrote that is actually wrong - as opposed to your thinking that whatever Lincoln did was really swell while DiLorenzo (and others) don’t agree?

Lincoln was an interesting man. He certainly was not the sainted figure he has been portrayed to be, but his assassination was a tragedy for the country as a whole, not merely the South, because those that came to power him were far worse statists.


9 posted on 10/24/2009 1:06:43 PM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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