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Sorry to spoil your (no doubt) cherished zinger but 'my ancestor' was probably a peasant in europe at the time.

Now I'm curious: How does it feel to be angry over 140-year-old grieviences and a war that took place generations before you were ever born? Is it that easy to find something to be angry about every morning?
Is your life really that boring amd unrewarding that you must look back a century and a half to find a grievience and a man to hate than go on about it for the rest of your life?

Must be great to have so few real-life problems that you can dredge up some ancient animus over a president dead since 1865 and make a life around that anger. It's also pathetic.

What these anti-Lincoln, lets-all-fight-the-Civil-War-again threads accomplish is hard to fathom and how they relate to modern conservative politics is simply invisible. Don't they have specific hate-Lincoln/The South Will Rise Again websites for this endless argument? Why do we need it on FR, over and over and over again?
How does this relate to what FR is about? The whole subject is tiresome and pointless. Again: give it up.

First I would like to say I love www.shucks.net. Its a great site and very well organized. Second I would like to say that you Yankees are getting more intrusive and annoying everyday. Any modern historian knows Lincoln was an aggresive Racist who would probably be a grand wizard today in the KKK. Which I'm sure some of you Yankees are apart of.

One's life does not have to be boring or unrewarding to resent an injustice that took place to one's people. If you are not aware of this, simply speak to a descendant of a Holocaust victim. That hurt will probably be remembered at least as long as the Holocaust that Sherman visited upon the defenseless citizenry of the South. It is easy to sit back and mock those whose hurts have not healed, but I wonder where you have trashed your humanity.

Although the article faults Lincoln for his actions in destroying the US Constitution by invalidating the sovereignty of the states, it is not "Anti-Lincoln." We do not want to fight the War Between the States again; we have learned that going up against the American Empire is a losing proposition. However, in the same way that Holocaust victims and their descendants will continue to broadcast the sins of Adolf Hitler and his henchmen, Southerners will continue to point out the ACTIONS of Lincoln which were contrary to the US Constitution and the Bible upon which this country was founded.

Neo-Nazis are rising again and preaching their anti-Semitism. Anti-Southernism is state policy promulgated by deceptive history books. It is sad to see conservatives so rigid in their defense of the destroyers of the US Constitution.