[DiogenesLamp]

This is funny. He was Lincoln's secretary of state. He's the one that criticized Lincoln after the Emancipation Proclamation by saying:

"We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free."

Yeah, tear down his statute. That's smart.

[Toughluck_freeper]

Yup. Most people don’t know that. Union states were the last strongholds of slavery (’holding them in bondage where can set them free’).

They were emancipated in the southern states (’emancipating slaves were we can’t reach them’), to disrupt logistics in the war and cause rebellion.

So go and destroy all Union monuments too. /s (no don’t!)

[robowombat]

I came from a traditional Southern home. Seward was always seen as a hero for purchasing Alaska amid the chorus of hoots and jeers. The Cold War strongly reinforced the feeling that having no foreign power on the continent was a good idea.