just heard...

Lol. That's a good one.
 
Lincoln got a very misleading reputation in time since his death. Everyone tries to cover up the fact that he didn't want to abolish slavery and just wanted them treated decently. At any rate, he was a pretty good guy, a helluva writer, business man, quite smart, but he certainly wasn't much to look at.

I think I might check that movie out once it comes out on DVD or something like that.
 
I sincerly believe J.W.Booth did the south a disservice when he pulled that trigger. Reconstruction and restitution wouldn't been as harsh. The most corrupt adminstration in U.S. history with Grant at it's head might not have been. Lincolns idea of shipping african decendants to Liberia might have worked after all. One split second with the pull of a trigger finger sure has affected alot of folks for the past 148 years and will continue to be felt.
 
I haven't seen the movie yet, but will say that by the time Lincoln was assasinated he had changed his mind on slavery and truly believed it should be abolished. In the beginning he was not an abolitionist but by the time he died he had come full circle. Many people quote his earlier writings to show that he wasn't anti-slavery, but everyone ignores his later letters that show he changed his views.

Lincoln was a great man, and a fantastic leader.
 
Blaze said:
I haven't seen the movie yet, but will say that by the time Lincoln was assasinated he had changed his mind on slavery and truly believed it should be abolished. In the beginning he was not an abolitionist but by the time he died he had come full circle. Many people quote his earlier writings to show that he wasn't anti-slavery, but everyone ignores his later letters that show he changed his views.

Lincoln was a great man, and a fantastic leader.
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You do realize he never abolished slavery in the Northern territories, right?
And at the time of his death he personally still owned slaves.

Lincoln was a hypocrite that time forgets a lot about.
 
Northern States already had gradual emancipation laws at the time. Maryland was really the only odd man out since they had no gradual emancipation and they never left the Union.

And Lincoln himself never owned slaves, nor did his father.
 
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