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I Never Knew That Abraham Lincoln Ordered The Largest MASS HANGING IN US HISTORY, Or Why He Did It
The Daily Check ^ | May 29, 2017

Posted on 06/17/2017 6:14:26 PM PDT by plain talk

People think that Abe Lincoln was such a benevolent President. He was actually a bit of a tyrant. He attacked the Confederate States of America, who seceded from the Union due to tax and tariffs. (If you think it was over slavery, you need to find a real American history book written before 1960.)

This picture is of 38 Santee Sioux Indian men that were ordered to be executed by Abraham Lincoln for treaty violations (IE: hunting off of their assigned reservation).

So, on December 26, 1862, the “Great Emancipator” ordered the largest mass execution in American History, where the guilt of those to be executed was entirely in doubt. Regardless of how Lincoln defenders seek to play this, it was nothing more than murder to obtain the land of the Santee Sioux and to appease his political cronies in Minnesota.

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KEYWORDS: 800americanskilled; bs; dakotawar; kkk; klan; lincoln; neoconfederate; neoconfederatelies; presidents; propaganda; shamefulrevision; unworthyoffr; warbetweenthestates; zot
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To: FreedomStar3028

The federal government fought the war to remove a state’s ability to secede and establish the federal law as the supreme law of the land. Everything else is just theatre. The states had a right to secede from the union, if the federal government became overbearing. It does not matter if the state is being a bad actor in regards to why it wishes to secede. Now that the feds won the Civil War, it can pass whatever laws it wishes and override any state it wants and no state can secede over it.


61 posted on 06/17/2017 7:25:11 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Wissa

That would do it, if indeed true.


62 posted on 06/17/2017 7:28:36 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: MrEdd
You have it totally backwards. In the beginning of the war, the all volunteer Union army was large and was willing to fight to "preserve the union"(what ever the hell that meant since the Union still has 20+ states in it even after secession). Nobody wanted to die to free a n-word. After the Army of the Potomac had been decimated by the Army of Northern VA Lincoln needed new supply of troops to augment the Mics coming off the boats in NYC. To that end Lincoln sighed the The Emancipation Proclamation which went over like a fart in church during Sunday communion. Then the US Congress passed the conscription act to bolster rapidly falling recruitment which set off a powder keg culminating in a race/draft riot in 1863.

Where did you learn faux history? You should get a refund.

63 posted on 06/17/2017 7:30:38 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Good post. And this transition to a powerful centralized government mirrored a similar rationalization of power around the same time in other countries — like Canada’s confederation in 1867, the unification of the Prussian states under von Bismarck, the establishment of Italy out of the Papal States by Garibaldi, etc.


64 posted on 06/17/2017 7:30:52 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: plain talk

He also ordered US Naval ships to fire on NYC during the draft riots where democrats didn’t want to be drafted to fight the war.


65 posted on 06/17/2017 7:32:25 PM PDT by stockpirate (SETH RICH gave the emails to wkikileaks, murdered he was, cover up it is)
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To: FreedomStar3028
Ya I’m not sure why people on FR say the Civil War wasn’t about slavery.

Yes, it was. 100%. If the North hadn’t wanted to get rid of slavery, the South would never have seceded.

It is a total revisionist myth that the North was against slavery.

Initially intended to express anger at the draft, the protests turned into a race riot, with white rioters, predominantly Irish immigrants,[4] attacking blacks throughout the city. The official death toll was listed at either 119 or 120 individuals. Conditions in the city were such that Major General John E. Wool, commander of the Department of the East, said on July 16 that "Martial law ought to be proclaimed, but I have not a sufficient force to enforce it."[8]
New York City draft riots

The riots remain the largest civil and racial insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself.
Now tell me again about the myth that the North during the Civil War cared about the plight of Black people.
66 posted on 06/17/2017 7:33:37 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: central_va
Lincoln stated the war wasn’t about slavery.

Lincoln didn't start the war. This argument seems similar to President Obama's repeated claim that terrorism isn't about Islam.

67 posted on 06/17/2017 7:34:55 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: SSS Two

He didn’t start the war. He just provoked a reaction by sending in the troops.


68 posted on 06/17/2017 7:37:33 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: plain talk

But, but 300 were supposed to be hanged! He commuted the sentence of all but those 38 hanged. Since he did that isn’t Lincoln a “good guy”?

sounds like a little more to the story than just hunting off Indian lands.


69 posted on 06/17/2017 7:40:19 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: DesertRhino

Precisely


70 posted on 06/17/2017 7:40:30 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: higgmeister

higgmeister, in case you do not know, the slave states were doing subjugation and oppression to the slaves. It is amazing that the slavers of north west Georgia thought it was OK to do oppression and subjugation to the slaves yet it was not OK for the Union armies to do the exact same thing to the Slavers. One other thing...the Cherokee Tribe was living in north west Georgia and was co-existing with the whites. And look at what the slavers did to the Cherokee. Subjugation and oppression. Stole their land. As a West Rome Chieftain I too know about the history of North West Georgia.


71 posted on 06/17/2017 7:40:43 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: SSS Two

Exactly


72 posted on 06/17/2017 7:41:32 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: FreedomStar3028

So, why did FIVE SLAVE STATES stay in the Union? Some were still slave states after the war and only gave it up after the 13th Amendment was ratified.
Last flag to fly over legal slavery was the Stars and Stripes.


73 posted on 06/17/2017 7:43:22 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: SSS Two

The crap states rights came after the civil war was lost. The Lost Cause and its supporters were democrats and founders of the KKK


74 posted on 06/17/2017 7:44:01 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: dsc

I’m sick enough of historical revisionism to support making it a capital crime.


Including the insane assertion that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery.


75 posted on 06/17/2017 7:44:35 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: iowamark

I’m with you


76 posted on 06/17/2017 7:44:42 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Wonder Warthog
“The fact remains that Lincoln destroyed the Union to save it. What existed after the Civil War bore little resemblance to the original.”

Author Garry Wills, an admirer of Lincoln, said about the same thing when he wrote: Lincoln at Gettysburg “performed one of the most daring acts of open-air sleight-of-hand ever witnessed by the unsuspecting. Everyone in that vast throng of thousands was having his or her intellectual pocket picked. The crowd departed with a new thing in its ideological luggage, that new constitution Lincoln had substituted for the one they brought there with them. They walked off, from those curving graves on the hillside, under a changed sky, into a different America. Lincoln had revolutionized the Revolution, giving people a new past to live with that would change their future indefinitely.”

77 posted on 06/17/2017 7:44:48 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Jonty30
He just provoked a reaction by sending in the troops.

The historical revisionism on FR is strong.

The first blood drawn in the Civil War was in Union territory. Pro-slavery forces killed four Union soldiers in Baltimore. See the Pratt Street Massacre.

Furthermore, Union troops had always occupied Ft. Sumter in South Carolina prior to the Civil War. I honestly don't know where you're going with this.

78 posted on 06/17/2017 7:48:57 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: fungoking

“Including the insane assertion that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery.”

If it is true that the South fought for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?


79 posted on 06/17/2017 7:49:05 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Nifster

“The crap states rights came after the civil war was lost.”

See amendment IX.

See amendment X.


80 posted on 06/17/2017 7:53:03 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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