I like it, but Lincoln is not well portrayed in the biography given on the website. One might even say he is cast as something of a villain, but we were at war then. He was the first Republican President who stood for a union of states (federal) which defend human dignity. If we are to end abortion in America, it will be because we have heeded the legacy of Lincoln.
Lisa, it just goes to show it's all in the eyes of the beholder. I thought he portrayed Lincoln too positively. He was a white supremicist from a state that denied the right to work of free blacks. The only slavery court case he ever argued as a lawyer, he defended the rights of "Massah." He made a number of statements about blacks not being equal to the white race and wanted to colonize them all in Liberia. The experiment in colonization was a total failure and resulted in a lot of blacks dying.
When he had the chance to free slaves, his Emancipation Proclamation specifically excluded the areas where the North had control. He only freed slaves in the southern territories where he couldn't enforce it. He used slavery as a political football and hoped the slaves would rise up in rebellion. His image as "The Great Emancipator" is a fraud.
Lincoln's legacy was a central government that rides roughshod over the rights of the states. It's hard to say what it would have been had he survived. The injustices of reconstruction poisoned race relations in the south.
I like it, but Lincoln is not well portrayed in the biography given on the website. One might even say he is cast as something of a villain, but we were at war then. He was the first Republican President who stood for a union of states (federal) which defend human dignity. If we are to end abortion in America, it will be because we have heeded the legacy of Lincoln.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me hopping mad and I'm glad of it. Three cheers for John McNaughton and three more for you!
ReplyDeleteLisa, it just goes to show it's all in the eyes of the beholder. I thought he portrayed Lincoln too positively. He was a white supremicist from a state that denied the right to work of free blacks. The only slavery court case he ever argued as a lawyer, he defended the rights of "Massah." He made a number of statements about blacks not being equal to the white race and wanted to colonize them all in Liberia. The experiment in colonization was a total failure and resulted in a lot of blacks dying.
ReplyDeleteWhen he had the chance to free slaves, his Emancipation Proclamation specifically excluded the areas where the North had control. He only freed slaves in the southern territories where he couldn't enforce it. He used slavery as a political football and hoped the slaves would rise up in rebellion. His image as "The Great Emancipator" is a fraud.
Lincoln's legacy was a central government that rides roughshod over the rights of the states. It's hard to say what it would have been had he survived. The injustices of reconstruction poisoned race relations in the south.