It’s just that these politicians get far too much credit for issuing a piece of paper declaring this or declaring that when it’s the poor people that have to go out and die to implement their high and mighty ideas.
Slavery would have collapsed under it’s own weight before the 19th century came to a close. Lincoln and everyone else knew this.
What Lincoln was trying to avoid was the humiliation of people standing up to his authority. He arrived in Washington in a disguise, dressed as a woman. He never forgot that. He vowed never to suffer that kind of disrespect again.
Lincoln gave us this gluttonous federal beast which now devours even our progeny.
What Lincoln was trying to avoid was the humiliation of people standing up to his authority. He arrived in Washington in a disguise, dressed as a woman. He never forgot that. He vowed never to suffer that kind of disrespect again. Really?
The Clothes in which Davis Disguised Himself
When Union soldiers captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis -- purportedly wearing his wife's dress and shawl -- on May 10, 1865, Barnum was not the only northerner to make a spectacle of the bizarre event. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton clothed a mannequin in a dress, hoopskirt, and shawl; had photographs taken of it; and distributed the photographs to the press. Newspapers ran sketches of the photo, like the one above (the technology to reproduce photos in newspapers did not yet exist). Later, Stanton claimed to have acquired the actual dress from Davis' wife and held a massive press conference to display it.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/lm/79/
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As one whose great great great grandfather abandoned his heritage because he did not believe in slavery; (he moved away from the plantation to become part of the underground railway), I believe Abraham Lincoln did the right thing with his proclamation of emancipation. The war was also because the South wanted to secede from the Union, I believe.