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Progressives Gone Wild? Abraham Lincoln Statue Vandalized in Chicago
Townhall.com ^ | August 18, 2017 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 08/18/2017 10:51:48 AM PDT by Kaslin

All statues must go—even ones erected to the president who led the effort to abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment. The president who kept this country together during one of the most turbulent time in our history. He’s our greatest president full stop. And yet, someone decided to vandalize Abraham Lincoln in Chicago (via NBC Chicago):

An Abraham Lincoln was damaged and burned in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood late Wednesday, Ald. Ray Lopez said.

The statue was found burned near 69th Street and Wolcott, authorities said.

"What an absolute disgraceful act of vandalism," Lopez wrote on Facebook along with an image of the charred structure. He encouraged anyone who has information on what happened to contact police or his office "immediately."

The statue, a bust of Lincoln, was erected by Phil Bloomquist on Aug. 31, 1926.

It is one of many that have been vandalized across the country in wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia and the president's comments that followed.

On Tuesday, someone vandalized the Lincoln Memorial, writing "F--- law" in red spray paint on a pillar at the monument.

Was because people didn’t care? People who don’t know history? It really doesn’t matter. At the same time, liberals do have a penchant for forgetting history, or using it for political purposes when it suits their aims. In this case, everyone just realized that Confederate statues were bad, bad things, despite them being in plain view of the public for decades. It’s a way to paint President Trump and Republicans as racist. In other ways, it’s just another day that ends in “y.” It also shows that not even Lincoln is safe from this insanity. 

Chicago pol: Trump emboldened racists to burn our Lincoln bust!!!!

Same story: Oh, kids were seen lighting fireworks on it on July 4th. pic.twitter.com/36R7mujrzo— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 17, 2017



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: arson; fireworks; july4th; lincoln; oldnews
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To: TheTimeOfMan

Ditto. Ongoing industrial revolution and advances in technology would have been the end of slavery.


21 posted on 08/18/2017 12:21:30 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Original Lurker

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22 posted on 08/18/2017 12:31:57 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

Ditto. Ongoing industrial revolution and advances in technology would have been the end of slavery.


23 posted on 08/18/2017 12:35:38 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Kaslin

Abraham Lincoln Statue Vandalized in Chicago


 
 

 

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Washington, D.C.
March 4, 1865

 

 

 

 

At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it--all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral [sic] address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war--seeking to dissole [sic] the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether"

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

24 posted on 08/18/2017 12:43:35 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It’s about erasing American history.


25 posted on 08/18/2017 12:44:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Bonemaker
Ongoing industrial revolution and advances in technology would have been the end of slavery.

And governments would NOT have to impose draconian laws like Minimum Wage.

26 posted on 08/18/2017 12:46:40 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: TheTimeOfMan
Well I think Lincoln is our worst president ever. He needlessly precipitated a war that killed a large percentage of the young male population. Slavery would have been outlawed in the south any way in 10-15 more years.

Actually Lincoln did nothing to precipitate the Civil War (or War for Southern Independence if you prefer).

Most of the Confederate States seceded before Lincoln was inaugurated because of the republican party's platform plank to keep any potential states created from the western territories as free states. The rebellion became a shooting war when the federal government refused turn over federal military property to the State of South Carolina. The Confederate Army then opened fire on Ft. Sumpter to take it by force of arms.

27 posted on 08/18/2017 1:03:10 PM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: Kaslin

I’m still waiting for them to get around to Voltaire, Comte, Hegel, Darwin, and Marx.


28 posted on 08/18/2017 1:13:55 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Vegam Yehudah tillachem biYrushalayim . . . .)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

‘He needlessly precipitated a war that killed a large percentage of the young male population.’

yeah, he never should have forced those eleven states to secede from the Union...

‘Slavery would have been outlawed in the south any way in 10-15 more years.’

do you seriously think the slaveowners who pushed so hard to expand slavery westward, thought the death of slavery was imminent...?


29 posted on 08/18/2017 4:41:49 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Bonemaker

‘Ongoing industrial revolution and advances in technology would have been the end of slavery.’

so I’ll ask you too; you think the pro slavery crowd thought slavery was dying, when they made such a big stink about expanding it westward...?


30 posted on 08/18/2017 4:45:22 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

So I’ll ask you...do you think slavery would still be going on in 2017 without the loss of 700,000 lives?


31 posted on 08/18/2017 6:42:39 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: IrishBrigade

1. There were 8 times as many anti-slavery associations in the south than the north.

2. Outlawing slavery was already being widely discussed in state legislatures.

3. Only 3% of white southerners owned slaves. They were really expensive (young male was around $100,000 in todays money) so only the rich could afford them. One of the flash points was slavery but the main issue was state’s rights. The 97% who didn’t own slaves did not fight for rich people to own slaves - not by a long shot. They fought for states rights.

Slave owner does not = ‘southerner’. It is important that you disabuse yourself of that notion.


32 posted on 08/18/2017 7:22:35 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: TheTimeOfMan
Slave owner does not = ‘southerner’. It is important that you disabuse yourself of that notion.

Then what % were Northerners?

33 posted on 08/18/2017 8:36:42 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

I wonder if Madison has ANY statues of ANYone?

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3505615/posts


34 posted on 08/19/2017 5:27:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Lincoln statue at Bascom Hall at the University of Wisconsin- Madison


35 posted on 08/19/2017 5:52:32 AM PDT by Kaslin (Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur - Politicians are not born; they are excreted. (Cicero)
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To: Kaslin

Watch out; Abe!


36 posted on 08/19/2017 6:06:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin
 
 
 
 
More on Madison...  https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Statue+of+Liberty+Madison+Wisconsin&FORM=IDMHDL

37 posted on 08/19/2017 6:19:20 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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