/——/ Slave owing democRATs called Abe Lincoln an ape.1. Valerie Jarret does look white.
2. The human species is part of the 'Great Ape' family of species, so saying she looks like an ape is factually correct as it is also correct for all of us.
3. Why was it OK to compare Bush to an ape if it is such a horrid insult?
This is too easy but............ Link?/----/ To be fair to McClellan, his position on slavery in late May 1861 was essentially the same as that of Abraham Lincoln. Like Lincoln, he was concerned with holding the allegiance of the border states, and reassuring slaveholders there that slavery was more secure in the Union than in the Confederacy was integral to this task. Benjamin Butler had made similar assurances to Marylanders the previous month when his Massachusetts troops entered the state en route to Washington, D.C. However, by this time, Butler, like McClellan a Democrat, was beginning to see the military value of the slaves and experiencing the first intimations that protecting slaveholders, especially rebel slaveholders, was not the best way to save the Union. McClellan would never come around to that position but soon the North would be electrified by Ben Butler’s term, “contraband of war.”/----/ No you fool. I have studied the Civil War since I was in my early teens. (I'm 66 now.) I have attended lectures on the politics of the day and if you think politicians attack each other today, you have no idea what it was like back then./----/ Yeah this is too easy: 'Idiot,' 'Yahoo,' 'Original Gorilla': How Lincoln Was Dissed in His Day
George Templeton Strong, a prominent New York lawyer and diarist, wrote that Lincoln was “a barbarian, Scythian, yahoo, or gorilla.” Henry Ward Beecher, the Connecticut-born preacher and abolitionist, often ridiculed Lincoln in his newspaper, The Independent (New York), rebuking him for his lack of refinement and calling him “an unshapely man.” Other Northern newspapers openly called for his assassination long before John Wilkes Booth pulled the trigger. He was called a coward, “an idiot,” and “the original gorilla” by none other than the commanding general of his armies, George McClellan.
How a Racist Newspaper Defeated Lincoln in New York in the 1864 Election
Racism in New York was rampant during the 1864 presidential campaign, and the anti-emancipation newspaper New York World used every dirty trick in the book to slander Abraham Lincoln and derail his reelection bid, including spreading rumors of a mixed-race orgy sanctioned by the Republican Party. In his new book, The Civil War in 50 Objects, historian Harold Holzer tells the story of how Lincoln almost fell for it.
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You're actually suggesting not only that you looked up (or assumed) political party affiliations for some cherrypicked writers in New York and Connecticut, but that those states and Pennsylvania (McClelland) had slavery?
Oh who did those states vote for in the elections of 1860/1864 btw?
Apparently you haven't studied anywhere near what I already know at the same age.
For instance, please to essplain to the class how George McClelland owned slaves, in a state where it had already been abolished before he was born.
George McClellan and Slavery
Provide a link proving McClelland owned slaves. BTW he was an incompetent General. Funny how you picked him.
That's your job dood. You made the claim about "slave-holding Democrats" and then proceeded to cite examples of newspaper people in New York and Connecticut, and tossed in McClelland, the only one with any political activity, born and raised in Pennsylvania. NONE of those states had slavery in Lincoln's time.
/----/ In your post #1430 you stated: "For instance, please to essplain to the class how George McClelland owned slaves, in a state where it had already been abolished before he was born." I never made that claim about McClelland. The slave owning democRATS were in the South and they started the Civil War. Lincoln was a Republican and signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free them. .