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To: pgkdan
AS with any icon created to worship a devil, good people should tear the statue down as soon as it is erected.
8 posted on 12/26/2002 10:25:51 AM PST by Marobe
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To: Marobe
AS with any icon created to worship a devil, good people should tear the statue down as soon as it is erected.

Wouldn't that be revision?

"Once the three stood agreed on the terms, Sherman and [General Joe]Johnston signed it and Sherman called for copies to be made for their two governments. He then he spoke to the two Confederates of Lincoln's assassination. Johnston confided to Sherman his horror at the deed, fearing it would be blamed on the Confederates, and that Lincoln might have been their greatest ally in reconstruction." Stepping outside to their now mingled escorts, they found the news generally known, as Sherman introduced the two of them to his staff, and [John C. ]Breckinridge and Reagan discussed it with some of their followers. The postmaster said he hoped no connection between the murdered and their cause would be found, or it should go hard for them, while Breckinridge said Lincoln's death at this time and in this manner must precipitate great calamity for them. "Gentlemen," he told them, “the South has lost its best friend." At once he wrote a message to be taken by courier to Davis, announcing the assassination and what he called the "dastardly attempt" on Seward.

-"An Honorable Defeat" pp.166-67 by William C. Davis

He [Davis] read the telegram [bringing news of Lincoln's death] and when it brought an exultant shout raised his hand to check the demonstration..."He had power over the Northern people," Davis wrote in his memoir of the war," and was without malignity to the southern people."...Alone of the southern apologists, [Alexander] Stephens held Lincoln in high regard. "The Union with him in sentiment," said the Georgian, "rose to the sublimnity of religious mysticism...in 1873 "Little Elick" Stephens, who again represented his Georgia district in Congress, praised Lincoln for his wisdom, kindness and generosity in a well-publicized speech seconding the acceptance of the gift of Francis B. Carpenter's famous painting of Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation."...

-- "Lincoln in American Memory" pp 46-48, by Merrill Peterson

How is it that you know better than Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, Joe Johnston and John C. Breckinridge?

Walt

9 posted on 12/26/2002 10:33:57 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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