bigrebnc continues to demonstrate his ignorance about the Civil War as well as Lincoln and his racism.
The South fired on Old Glory and spit on the patriots and the martyrs of the War of Independence. Yes, Southerners were traitors against the nation. No one gives a crap today about their twisted feelings toward their states. Three million northerners had no trouble understanding that; they took up the Blue and murdered the Gray.
The South fired on Ft Sumter. The North did not fire on Charleston or South Carolina. The South started the war. Any other claim is simply a whiner's complaint.
Lincoln obviously agreed with me, bigrebnc: "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." Abraham Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley
Lincoln on the racial equality. Your quote is from 1858 and has nothing to do with how he felt about race in 1865. In fact, "In his second term as president, on
April 11, 1865, Lincoln gave a speech supporting a form of limited suffrage extended to what Lincoln described as the more "intelligent" blacks and those blacks who had rendered special services to the nation.[25] In analyzing Lincoln's position historian Eugene H. Berwanger notes: During his presidency, Lincoln took a reasoned course which helped the federal government both destroy slavery and advance the cause of black suffrage. For a man who had denied both reforms four years earlier,
Lincoln's change in attitude was rapid and decisive. He was both open-minded and perceptive to the needs of his nation in a postwar era. Once committed to a principle, Lincoln moved toward it with steady, determined progress.
Abraham Lincoln on slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You continue ignorant about the very history and precedents of our culture. Until you correct that, every knowledgeable individual here will continue to pwn you., as I have here.
