[rwfromkansas]

Hateful? Yeah, I should just love this man for pretending to be for ending slavery, all the while refusing to free slaves in the north....even overturning military orders of commanders to do so. Yeah, I should feel great about him having the newspapers shut down. Yeah, I just feel fine and dandy about him arresting anyone he pleased for anything. Yeah, I should be pleased he made "freed" slaves work for the Union army at the Mississippi River. I am sorry, if these things are worthy of praise, there is something wrong with you.

[rwfromkansas]

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[MeekOneGOP]

So then what's your opinion regarding Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush??? You think they are traitors, too??

Lincoln made tough choices during a terrible time and we are ONE country now (except for those that would want it otherwise). . .

[Non-Sequitur]

Since Jefferson Davis refused to free the slaves down south; forced through legislation that suspended habeas corpus throughout the south (resulting in martial law being imposed in some southern cities); initiated conscription; proposed income taxes at levels far above those up north; and forcibly appropriated slave labor and agricultural goods for the war effort (something Lincoln never dreamed of doing) would you direct any of your condemnations at him?