To: Grand Old Partisan
What it should tell you is that the positions advocated by the Radical Republicans were in the minority. Lincoln barely won re-election, and even then, only without the South voting against him, and the military preventing votes for anyone other than Lincoln. "Beast" Butler bragged about supressing the vote.
94 posted on
07/23/2003 8:46:07 PM PDT by
4CJ
(Dims, living proof that almost everywhere, villages are missing their idiot.)
To: 4ConservativeJustices
Yes, the influence of the Radical Republicans did not become significant until after the war, as the northern electorate was outraged by the southern Democrats' treatment of blacks and white Unionists.
110 posted on
07/24/2003 1:21:21 AM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: 4ConservativeJustices
Lincoln BARELY won re-election? This is typical but is it a Lie or just ignorance? 212-21 seems to be a LANDSLIDE by any normal accounting of fact. Hilarious.
131 posted on
07/24/2003 7:46:54 AM PDT by
justshutupandtakeit
(RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
To: 4ConservativeJustices
Lincoln barely won re-election... You claim that President Lincoln 'barely' won reelection, even though he had 55% of the popular vote, and then claim that as evidence that almost half the people didn't support the war. Franklin Roosevelt won reelection in 1944 with only 53.4% of the popular vote. Does that mean that almost half the people didn't support that war either?
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