Originally Posted by 7mmbuster
This looks interesting.
John Wilkes Booth
Not a fan of Lincoln. I hold him highly responsible for the Civil War, which I believe could have been avoided with a more even handed approach to the problem of succession.
Instead of attempting a peaceful solution, Lincoln called out 75000 militia to put down an armed rebellion.
He skillfully painted the South into a corner, forcing them to fire the first shots and appear in the north and abroad as the aggressors.
With that said, I still think that Booths shot in Fords Theater, was the single most destructive shot fired against the Confederacy in the war.
With Lincoln gone, the last moderating influence to the black republicans was removed as well.
With the vindictive feeling of the northern population, and with a weak executive like Andrew Johnson in the White House, they enforced a strict and damaging policy of reconstruction on the South.
It caused years of depression and even longer feelings of hatred in the southern states.
I think the whole damn thing could have been avoided…
Reon

And the North, as a punitive measure and by the stroke of a pen made US Citizens of the thousands of contraband that should have been dealt with differently. Would have been much better for both races to have relocated freed slaves to their native land.

As an invasive species and with the differences of values, intelligence, ambition, etc. between races, the USofA has been on a steady decline and will continue until the level of the negro is achieved.

Will surprisingly look like Sub-Saharan Africa.

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