No one, not even Davis, expected Lincoln to turn out to be such a savage killer of fellow Americans.
Yeah, he really miscalculated, didn’t he?
Even though the Confederacy fired the first shot.. Jefferson Davis (No relation) was a crossdressing coward..
If secession per 1860/61 was real, Lincoln didn’t have Americans killed, but Jeff Davis did.
If secession was not real, the insurrectionists were sadly not treated with sufficient rigor once the insurrection was over.
Funny how the big killers so often have a cult that venerates their memory. In Russia you can still find Lenin venerated as a great leader and he killed off a tremendous number of Russians. The same for Rome at its height, when they built Temples to their Emperors. Here we do the same and call it a “Memorial”, but the divine statue is still there for the believers to venerate.
Speaking of Russia, I often wonder if Breshnev developed his doctrine with an eye to 19th century America; once you were in, there was no getting out. And if you intended to put him to the test you were going to be met with steel. I’m sure the irony of us arguing for the self-determination of the captive nations wasn’t lost on him.