[Grand Old Partisan]

So you believe Abraham Lincoln was insane -- an insight into your own grip on sanity.

Thaddeus Stevens, the villian of the pro-Ku Klux Klan movie "Birth of a Nation" and the object of your scorn, was the greatest Republican who ever lived. When he lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, his coffin was attended by an honor guard of black Union Army veterans. Over 20,000 people -- have being emancipated slaves -- attended his funeral. The entire service consisted of this eulogy:

"God give to Vermont another son; Lancaster, another citizen; Pennsylvania, another statesman; the country, another patriot; the poor, another friend; the freedmen, another benefactor; the race, another advocate; and the world, another man like Thaddeus Stevens."

Amen

[Non-Sequitur]

During the campaign in Pennsylvania in 1863, Jubal Early sent men to the iron foundry owned by Stephens. They burned the property, seized what materials were on hand that he could make use of, and for good measure his men looted the homes of the foundry workers.

[GOPcapitalist]

So you believe Abraham Lincoln was insane

Not at all. But as I said previously, those who venerate his blasphemy are of questionable sanity.

Thaddeus Stevens, the villian of the pro-Ku Klux Klan movie "Birth of a Nation" and the object of your scorn, was the greatest Republican who ever lived.

And you question my "own grip on sanity." Stevens was a scumbag, just like Sumner, Ingersoll, Blaine, Grant and the rest of their ilk. They were corrupt sleazy self serving politicians who defined an era of corruption, robber barons, and government predicated on the acquisition of power. To venerate them is an act as repulsive, if not more so, as claiming Bill Clinton to be a "statesman."