"Slavery was ending anyway????" Seriously? If I were a slave, it couldn't end any too soon. Should have ended even sooner....no, shouldn't have started in the first place. (And yes, I know that Africans sold them, and this does not excuse people who trafficked in slavery.)
Have any of you throwing stones at Lincoln thought seriously of the horrors associated with slavery? Having a child sold to another owner, never to be seen again?
I'm sorry, but whatever abuses Lincoln committed, they pale in comparison with the wretched state of affairs when human beings are owned.
Every schoolchild with enough smarts and curiosity to get beyond
the latest video game of "Call of Duty" ought to go see "Lincoln," the
movie, and check out the references and his own attention span. It
requires patience, but it shows through dramatic action how a self-taught
rustic from the deep backwoods had the emotional and intellectual
discipline to overcome poverty and grow up to be a president to rank among
the greatest.
This is not about the American Dream or a Horatio Alger story. (Does anybody remember him?) Nor is it mythmaking. It's made of sterner stuff than that....
"Whatever abuses Lincoln committed" should not be forgotten and glossed over. Also, a full understanding of the conflict requires a full examination of the then-current circumstances. It in no way supports or glorifies slavery to point out that Lincoln changed his view and statements about slavery or that he was not the one dimensional image often portrayed in public media.
So yeah , I am fully aware the horror of it, and if there was any way I would argue that any and all Slave owners should in turn be enslaved; so they could understand the terror that they made.
However, that doesn't excuse the evil that is the large Federal Government. We are in the mess we are today precisely due to Lincoln assumption of illegal powers. The millions of poverty of today, and the virtual slavery of our inner cities, are also a direct result of this.
So while I agree with you 100% as to the moral degeneration that Slavery is, that doesn't automatically make Lincoln right.
How about assassinating Lincoln? Did that get Americans a better shake? His whole family should've been murdered, so you pissants would feel satisfied.