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Yeah, republican party. It's a start.
Yeah, republican party. It's a start.
Yeah, republican party. It's a start.
Yeah, republican party. It's a start.
We started in the 1860s. When are the Democrats going to start?
True dat, yet managed to do so with that damn war. Go figure...Yeah, republican party. It's a start.
We started in the 1860s. When are the Democrats going to start?
Uh with whom? Lincoln was a racist and never freed the slave with the Emancipation Proclamation.
True dat, yet managed to do so with that damn war. Go figure...
True dat, yet managed to do so with that damn war. Go figure...
A mere side affect of what he was desperate to try and win the war to do. He planned to reslave African Americans once everything settled down, but obviously never got that chance.
He died a racist who believed that Blacks were inferior to Whites.
Jeremiah Wright has joined the thread.
True dat, yet managed to do so with that damn war. Go figure...
A mere side affect of what he was desperate to try and win the war to do. He planned to reslave African Americans once everything settled down, but obviously never got that chance.
He died a racist who believed that Blacks were inferior to Whites.
True dat, yet managed to do so with that damn war. Go figure...
A mere side affect of what he was desperate to try and win the war to do. He planned to reslave African Americans once everything settled down, but obviously never got that chance.
He died a racist who believed that Blacks were inferior to Whites.
Provide a source for this outrageous claim. Or admit you are so full of shit your hair is brown. You know the part where he planned to return slaves to slavery.
Though Abraham Lincoln has been one of the people identified as most responsible for the abolition of slavery, he maintained that the Constitution prohibited the federal government from abolishing slavery in states where it already existed
The war powers were the basis for the Emancipation Proclamation. The technical language of the Proclamation never actually freed slaves in the border states or in areas of the Confederacy already back under Union control, but strategically only gave freedom to slaves in Confederate territories where Lincoln did not have actual power and would disrupt the enemy. Many slaves were freed however, as the war continued. Lincoln was hesitant about pursuing broader emancipation during the war for areas already under Union control[citation needed], not wanting to provoke sedition in those Union areas that would be affected. Lincoln also attempted to compensate former slave owners for their losses throughout the war[citation needed]. The border states were pressured to abolish slavery on their own (all but Kentucky did so), and in doing so contributed to the more than 180,000 blacks in the Union Army and Navy. Lincoln credited these soldiers and sailors with turning the tide of the war[citation needed], and argued that their sacrifice earned both freedom and the right to vote. The Thirteenth Amendment made abolition permanent.
How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be take pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].[2
Lincoln maintained before secession that the federal government did not possess the constitutional power to end slavery in states where it already existed and backed the Corwin Amendment to affirm this principle.
Though he thought it was essentially a reaffirmation of terms already in the Constitution, Lincoln was a driving force in 1861 for the compromise Corwin amendment. It was never passed, but would have explicitly prohibited congressional interference with slavery in states where it already existed. The goal of the Corwin amendment was to reassure the slave-holding border states of no effective hostility directed at them
Lincoln made it clear that the North was fighting the war to preserve the Union. On August 22, 1862, just a few weeks before signing the Proclamation and after he had already discussed a draft of it with his cabinet in July, he wrote a letter in response to an editorial by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune which had urged complete abolition:
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. [3]
My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,—to their own native land. But a moment’s reflection would convince me that whatever of high hope (as I think there is) there may be in this, in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race
President Lincoln did not have the power to free the slaves in the North or non rebelling States. It required a Congressional act, an amendment to the Constitution. Nor did freed slaves suddenly become slaves again once the North captured a southern area.
More outrageous ignorance by Modbert.
President Lincoln did not have the power to free the slaves in the North or non rebelling States. It required a Congressional act, an amendment to the Constitution. Nor did freed slaves suddenly become slaves again once the North captured a southern area.
More outrageous ignorance by Modbert.
True dat, yet managed to do so with that damn war. Go figure...
A mere side affect of what he was desperate to try and win the war to do. He planned to reslave African Americans once everything settled down, but obviously never got that chance.
He died a racist who believed that Blacks were inferior to Whites.
Jeremiah Wright has joined the thread.
Indeed. Damn it Robert, you are growing more squirrely by the day!
Annie, you've showed your dislike if not hatred for me for a long time now.
President Lincoln did not have the power to free the slaves in the North or non rebelling States. It required a Congressional act, an amendment to the Constitution. Nor did freed slaves suddenly become slaves again once the North captured a southern area.
More outrageous ignorance by Modbert.
I'm only telling you the claims such as "Lincoln freed the slaves" that I was taught in school and seen several times on this board that has been debunked.
I never stated that freed slaves suddenly became slaves again once the North captured a southern area. I simply stated that they technically weren't free until the 13th Amendment unless you can point to some other form of Legislation between the Proclaimation and the 13th amendment that stated such a thing.
