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To: Biggirl
"...there are many different interpitations of Lincoln..."

Indeed there are however, with historians like Eric Foner who writes with a biased bent, the War of Northern Aggression will remain forever lying in a fog of uncertainty. Freeing slaves became a cause célèbre as a reason for that war as it droned on. Lincoln ended slavery but said, "those people must never be allowed to vote". Lincoln was anything but a saint; his abuse of the United States Constitution is legend.

90 posted on 01/15/2013 3:51:33 AM PST by yoe
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To: yoe

“Lincoln was anything but a saint; his abuse of the United States Constitution is legend.”

.....But then again, the first five Presidents, including Washington were slave holders also. They all were very much human just like the rest of us.


91 posted on 01/15/2013 3:56:54 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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