Lincoln’s Character

Townhall.com ^ | April 14, 2014 | Thomas Bogar

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

That all must be a peculiarly southern thing. I never heard of anyone getting chucked onto a chain gang by a “white trash courthouse crowd loungers and ne’er-do-wells” anywhere else. Nor sheriffs simply murdering children walking along the road. And this is Lincoln’s fault how? By abolishing slavery?

[lentulusgracchus]

I didn't say Southern sheriffs murdered children. Perhaps I should have said more perspicuously, that as boys in particular aged a bit and became a little huskier, they might get their turn in the labor mill that has been written about authoritatively by an LSU man. It was a way of recapturing free black labor and putting it to work under unfavorable (to the laborer) and non-negotiable conditions.

But don't believe me, look it up.

I didn't know about this racket, which was practiced in three or four of the original seven seceding States, until about 12 years ago, when the book came out.

Caution about the source: Notice here,

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/gilmoreprisonslavery.html

that the author of the article refers to "historians and activists", which means that he recognizes that an active political campaign is at work aimed at recovering voting rights for convicted (black) felons, presumably so they can vote down white America and turn it into a Gulag of a new kind -- "bottom rail on top now" as the emancipated slave taunted his former master, then a prisoner of war.

So some of the information is correct, but we should regard the source as tainted and motivated, not to mention mortally hostile.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Still, a state-level southern thing for which you apparently blame Lincoln.

[Impy]

Rest in Pieces, Confederacy.

[central_va]

Bloody Illinois Butcher Bump.

[lentulusgracchus]

Knothead. Everything you have, everything you enjoy, is protected by laws made by men from Virginia.

Think about it, genius.

[Impy]

You four-flushing blackguard! You think Washington or Madison would have supported your rebellion? Washington would have led the charge to kick your treasonous butts.

[rockrr]

Excellent point. Their heritage made the actions of the insurrectionists even more repugnant.

[lentulusgracchus]

Sorry, pal, I've got all five cards the same color.

Better luck next time.

And don't get out on that limb about what James Madison would or wouldn't have done. He was a Virginian, too, and those blackleg bankers in New York and Bahstin and their boy Hamilton were acting just like the royal governors and tax collectors whose asses we had kicked in the first place.

Madison recognized the problems of federal power, and so did Jefferson. Five years after the Whiskey Rebellion, they wrote the Kentucky Resolution and the Virginia Resolution, where the idea of some sort of State interposition against federal abuses was first raised.

"State" and "People" were the same thing to Democratic Republicans like Jefferson back then, and the People were the Sovereign. Federalists had a simpler view: "We are the Sovereign; we own everything and everybody. Now run along and play."

[lentulusgracchus]

Their heritage made the actions of the insurrectionists federal goon squads even more repugnant.

There. That help any?

[Impy]

That's right reb, keep pretending your rebellion was about "federal power", historical revisionism at it's finest. The South had zero problem with "federal power" when it was used to do what THEY wanted, like the Fugitive Slave Act.

[rockrr]

Always the klown, aren’t ya lentil?