Good to remember the Dakota of Minnesota
Their guilt was not in doubt. There was a much larger number that they wanted to hang. Lincoln made solid efforts to find the ones guilty beyond any doubt.
These treacherous SOBs took advantage of the distraction of the civil war to attack innocent settlers. They murdered and raped their way across the area. They left 450-800 dead depending on the source. 77 soldiers died too.
The revisionist view is that the Sioux did nothing wrong by murdering their way from farm to farm.
During the Dakota Uprising, the Dakota warriors killed between 450-800 civilians.
303 were convicted and sentenced to death. Lincoln commuted the sentences of all but 38.
Whoever wrote this article needs to refer to the southern states’ Articles of Secession if he doesn’t think the Civil War was about slavery. Bizarre revisionism.
During the Dakota Uprising, the Dakota warriors killed between 450-800 civilians.
303 were convicted and sentenced to death. Lincoln commuted the sentences of all but 38.
ordered to be executed by Abraham Lincoln for treaty violations (IE: hunting off of their assigned reservation).
Bullcrap. The first hunting trip involved stealing eggs from a homestead.....and murdering 5 settlers.
It was one of the largest indian depredations and mass murders of white settlers in one uprising in US history.
Lincoln was right to hang those guys.
I am shocked by the number 38.
What kind of record is that?
Tin pot dictators in obscure little countries can beat that before breakfast in the morning.
So, on December 26, 1862, the “Great Emancipator” ordered the largest mass execution in American History,
If he wanted to, Trump could beat that easy...there sure are enough deserving candidates around.
As for the Civil War not being about slavery, you might want to check with the declaration of secession.
“.. increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of Slavery ...” is listed as the main cause. It goes on at length about the north not enforcing the return of fugitive slaves, and of working to eliminate slavery.
Tariffs and taxes are not mentioned in the declaration.
I don’t understand why this KKK nonsense is allowed to be posted on FR. It undermines the credibility of the site.
The Sioux went on a rape/murder rampage, after being starved by corrupt Indian agents. Lincoln reviewed the trial transcripts and pardoned most of the Sioux, allowing the executions of only the actual rape-murderers.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/300-santee-sioux-sentenced-to-hang-in-minnesota
“300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota”
300+ were sentenced to death. 38 were hanged, probably the worst of the bunch.
Let’s use this story to shore up the wave of people who want to change *Columbus Day* to Indigenous Indian day. Meh.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/abraham-lincoln-ordered-the-execution-of-39-men/
We did often times treat the Native Americans unjustly, but this story is a travesty upon the facts in this case.
“The constitution is not a suicide pact”. He wasn’t a tyrant, he was one of the few people that could not be corrupted by power. Sort of like George Washington himself. The benevolent tyranny is heaven.
Lincoln undoubtedly was the worst president ever.
Lincoln was America’s Hitler.
Slavery was evil. Anyone who supports slavery, or excuses a government which supported or allowed slavery in any way shape or form is human scum.
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Trump will out do him.