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It depends on what you mean by meaningful. I think it would be interesting to know first hand how things really were instead of what we've read. I'd love to sit down with Lincoln for a while, share a bottle of wine and conversation. I think it would be coo!
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There are some answers that I would like to heave from Abe Lincoln - whom I do NOT see as a hero of any kind.
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There are some answers that I would like to heave from Abe Lincoln - whom I do NOT see as a hero of any kind.
I WOULD WANT TO KNOW why he didn't allow the south to secede, given the fact that the Constitution was conditionally ratified based on the states retaining their sovereignty. (See Virginia's ratification of the Constitution as one example: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/ratva.asp. ) As each state was constitutionally a sovereign nation, each had the right to withdraw from the treaty organization that most Americans call a country.
I WOULD WANT TO KNOW why the Emancipation Proclamation specifically exempted so many millions of slaves from its protections.
The relevant part of the text reads that it grants freedom to slaves from: "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
The adored Lincoln exempted more slaves from freedom than he claimed to want to free. In addition to the stated exemptions, the proclamation did not free the slaves in Kentucky or in any union state, and in spite of anti-slavery sentiment in the north, there were a lot of slaves in the north. Take the tobacco fields of Maryland or the ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, etc, or even the city of Washington DC as an example. Many northerners held slaves, but as histories are written by the victors of war, most people don't know that.
I WOULD WANT TO KNOW why he gave away lands rightfully owned by native Americans (through treaty), and defended that outright theft with military might. The Homestead Act needs an explanation. I would want to know if he understood what he did to those Indians who were forced from lands that were rightfully theirs through treaties. I would ask him if any part of law or any part of humanity was sacred in his mind.
I WOULD WANT TO KNOW WHY he thought that he had the right to claim such grand, unconstitutional powers - even to the point of bringing down a constitutional republic formed by sovereign nations (a treaty organization) and turning it into an oppressive, tyrannical government. How did he find good in his vision? I need an explanation, because after MUCH study, I still don't get it. To me, he was a traitor, and I would like to hear from his own lips how he was not. I want to know if he was ignorant or a tyrant or both.
Just what was he thinking?
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No, I don't think so. Your response to this question has been anything but meaningful. Lincoln would have been even more shocked by your responses than I am.
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Probably not, because it's likely if I were his contemporary then I'd be just as ordinary as I am now. Ordinary people aren't usually given an audience by the Prez.
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No, if conversations with his corpse are any indicator of what they'd be like when he was alive. He's such a bore. It's like talking to a skellington.
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