Abe had his hands full..is and should be one of our greatest Presidents.
Abraham Lincoln ought to be dug up and shot again.
You damn right...
Everyone acts like Lincoln acted alone, a bit more’n two million guys in blue helped him out, most of whom signed up for the job, willing to die to preserve the Union.
And as soon as those great humanitarians were done freeing the slaves they started freeing the savage injuns. Same federal government, same army, many of the same officers, somewhat same troops. The slaves had ordinarily little the industrial north wanted. Easy to claim high moral standards when the better reason was forcible retention of the southern states. . Injuns on the other hand had a LOT the union wanted. Natural resources at the time unlimited, including land to cultivate and graze, and hard mineral riches (gold, silver, etc) to name a few. The South was needed. The slaves were not. The frontier was needed. The Injuns were not. But they were just savages. They needed killing, by the same moralistic government that could tolerate slavery no more. Pffftt
