Originally Posted by gonehuntin
Originally Posted by rainshot
Lincoln was a decent man. We all have flaws and he did attempt to mollify the southern demands but extending slavery to new territories was not one of his options. He had to fight his own government and prosecute the war at the same time.


I vehemently disagree with your view on Abraham Lincoln. He was a thug who surrounded himself with atheists, socialists, Communists, Red Republicans, and Jacobins.


Much truth in this down to his exchanging letters with Karl Marx.

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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."

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