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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

If only Lincoln had respected the Constitution!

Lincoln was up to the time the greatest traitor to the constitution and the nation. He had to die for his crimes against the south and even the north. People talk of how the south would have avoided reconstruction and returned to normal had he lived that’s simply not true, normal was gone. Booth was a patriot in my opinion, of course I’m jaded as I have ancestors that fought and died in every theater of the war.

Sic Semper Tyrannis!

Completely and utterly false. Lincoln was the one person who acted in accord with the Constitution and the intent of the Founders.

Completely and utterly false. Lincoln was the one person who acted in accord with the Constitution and the intent of the Founders.

Just because you keep saying that bullschit like a broken record doesn’t make it so.

Prove me wrong.

Yes no disrespect to anybody in particular. One time I flew to NC for work at another one of our plants and when I was introduced there they said he's from SD but he's not a yankee. It just struck me at the time.

The American Military is not to be used against American Citizens. Doing do is a against the Constitution

The South seceded as was their right, and as a matter of rights demanded the North vacate forts within southern domains. The North refused, so the South attacked foreign forces within their borders. Lincoln instigated the Civil War. Sherman was a perfect monster in his sweep through the South. Not hard to imagine the hatred that resulted.