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re: Born 210 years ago today: Abraham Lincoln
Posted on 2/12/19 at 10:17 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
Posted on 2/12/19 at 10:17 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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Lincoln was elected to free the slaves.
No he wasn’t.
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The North had had enough of southerners coming into their states and dragging people away.
The north got tired of following the laws they agreed to.
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Lincoln was the Abolitionists candidate.
Just because the abolitionist supported him didn’t make him an abolitionist.
Then why didn’t he abolish slavery in the north? Why didn’t he free the slaves in the north when he gave the emancipation proclamation?
Bueller?
This post was edited on 2/12/19 at 10:18 pm
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Posted on 2/12/19 at 11:04 pm to beerJeep
None of what you’ve said matters. He freed more than 3million Americans. It’s the single greatest thing any American has ever done. It just doesn’t matter that some ideas and opinions he had would be seen as inappropriate today.
Posted on 2/13/19 at 6:39 am to beerJeep
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The north got tired of following the laws they agreed to.
It was a states' right issue. They felt their sovereignty was being violated.
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Just because the abolitionist supported him didn’t make him an abolitionist.
I never said he was, but South Carolina sure thought he would free the slaves.
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The north got tired of following the laws they agreed to.
They didn't agree, they were out-voted. Once Lincoln won, the writing was on the wall, the North wasn't going to be pushed around by the South any longer.
Remember, South Carolina left the Union before Lincoln even took office.
Oh yeah, and here's what they said in their articles of secession:
"A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.."
...But it wasn't about slavery, right?
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