Medved: A Vile Attempt To Tarnish Lincoln
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October 27, 2017
A group of students at University of Wisconsin used the recent Indigenous People's Day to try to discredit Abraham Lincoln. They covered a monumental statue of the 16th President with derisive signs and staged a "Die-In" in front of it.
"Let's be real," said a protest leader. "He owned slaves, and ordered the execution of native men." Actually, he stopped the execution of native men. In December, 1862, after military tribunals convicted 303 Sioux warriors of rape and murder for slaughtering more than 800 Minnesota civilians, Lincoln commuted sentences of 264 of them. He allowed punishment only for those who had brutalized non-combatants, not the fighters who killed 77 U.S. soldiers in the midst of the Civil War.
And as to the charge that Lincoln owned slaves: he never did, and from boyhood always hated the evil institution. It's also evil for America-hating activists to deploy false, ignorant charges to tarnish the legacy of our greatest president.
"Let's be real," said a protest leader. "He owned slaves, and ordered the execution of native men." Actually, he stopped the execution of native men. In December, 1862, after military tribunals convicted 303 Sioux warriors of rape and murder for slaughtering more than 800 Minnesota civilians, Lincoln commuted sentences of 264 of them. He allowed punishment only for those who had brutalized non-combatants, not the fighters who killed 77 U.S. soldiers in the midst of the Civil War.
And as to the charge that Lincoln owned slaves: he never did, and from boyhood always hated the evil institution. It's also evil for America-hating activists to deploy false, ignorant charges to tarnish the legacy of our greatest president.
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