Lincoln was one of our worst presidents. He made enemies of succeeding states instead of creating an alliance with the CSA and pitted brother against brother in a bloody war. Lincoln violated the civil liberties of Americans on both sides both before and after the war between the states. I would dare say that Abraham Lincoln was under the influence of the anti-christ.
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Worst? Unlikely. And... You're mistaking something. The traitors who tried to leave the Union made enemies of the nation. They started the war. They decided that owning people as property was important enough to die and kill for. Why would we acknowledge traitors with their own country or try to make an alliance with scum like that? Yeah he suspended Habeas Corpus, but that's within powers if the Constitution. And yes, he's so evil for wanting to keep the US together and stopping traitors who wanted to own people as property. Such a fiend.
The seceeding states were dead set on being Lincoln's enemies. His election and their paranoia about him abolishing slavery were the reason they decided to leave. Lincoln tried hard to avoid the war. The confederates fired the first shots. In the end, the traitors would have been better off staying in the Union. Slavery would have probably remained legal much longer if they hadn't decided to start the war.
The slaveowning states were declared enemies of Lincoln and any GOP candidate (on 1856 some threatened secession had Frémont been elected), and were opposed to any compromise: even the Corwin Amendment, which forever sheltered “domestic institutions” in the individual States, wasn’t enough . They knew their political power was set to diseappear due to the admission of more and more free states (which explain why the Border Ruffians enforced the Lecompton Constitution - which made slave-owning a natural right - to Kansas).
At this stade, the only “compromise” they would ever accept would be additional slave states, whether by internal expansion (Bleeding Kansas) or external (Knights of the Golden Circle, Ostend Manifesto, Filibuster War and the war against Mexico).
“He made enemies of succeeding states instead of creating an alliance with the CSA"
CSA soldiers were quoted telling civilians that the army was going to protect them from ‘Abe Lincoln coming down here and freeing our niggers.’ I suppose a better president could have found a common ground in there, somewhere. The North wanting to free all the slaves, the South wanting to enslave more of them… So very close to being compatible, nu?
“ I would dare say that Abraham Lincoln was under the influence of the anti-christ.”
Really? I happen to think that Abe Lincoln was one of your BEST presidents. Which most people who are against racism and slavery would agree with, why don’t you?
“As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion
-Abraham Lincoln
...and when the good that this particular man does lives on, what does that say about that which the Antichrist is supposed to lose to: yet won almost two centuries ago?!
Why would Lincoln make allies with the CSA? He was already personally against slavery and wanted to limit it to where it already was. Black people’s rights and liberties were being repeatedly violated for over a century before the Civil War. Just look at that stupid Plessy case!
Either you care about civil rights or you don’t. There is no in between.
1, The South did not succeed, it failed. If you don’t know the difference between succeed and secede , why should anyone pay attention to anything else you say?
1. South Carolina seceded in December 1860, officially beginning the Civil War (Fort Sumter was the first battle). Lincoln was not inaugurated until March 4, 1861. He had no authority prior to the beginning of the Civil War. Since he was assassinated shortly after the end, he didn’t have much authority over anything after the Civil War either.
succeeding states
A particularly humorous typo considering the South not only lost the Civil War, but suffered economic doldrums until WWII. Out of the 13 Confederate states, 6 are still among the poorest in the USA: Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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