A decision strictly by the popular vote.
A man winning the popular vote and the presidency with an electoral mandate is a reason why it needs to be eliminated?
The Civil War wasn’t a “holocaust”. What happened to the Indians was.
Lincoln took the strong position, which some would call tyrannical, that states have no right to secede from the Union. He believed it was his obligation as President to enforce the laws that would keep the states in the Union even against their will as expressed by democratic conventions and state legislatures. His policy is ironic and even hypocritical because this position conflicts with Lincoln’s own doctrine of the right of revolution that he expressed in Congress on January 12, 1848 during the Mexican War when he said,
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power,
have the right to rise up
and shake off the existing government
and form a new one that suits them better.
This is a most valuable—a most sacred right—
a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Nor is this right confined to cases in which
the whole people of an existing government
may choose to exercise it.
Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize
and make their own so much of the territory as they inhabit.
More than this, a majority of any portion of such people
may revolutionize, putting down a minority,
intermingled with or near about them,
who may oppose their movement.
Such minority was precisely the case
of the Tories of our own revolution.
It is a quality of revolutions not to go
by old lines or old laws,
but to break up both and make new ones.
In his inaugural address President Lincoln warned against a civil war while promising that he would not invade the South.
The South picked a fight it couldn’t win.
Hint: If you want to be taken seriously, or to deserve to be taken seriously, don’t call it that. (Nor “War of Northern Aggression,” either.)
Quote from Abraham Lincoln
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”
SmilinJack, I don’t suppose I have to cite the part where Lincoln had to swear to protect and defend the union from threats foreign and domestic when he took office. And you would blame him for creating that oath?
Lincoln wanted to send the Negroes back to Africa.
When over 600 thousand Americans die in a war that could have been prevented…I shall, have and will continue to refer to it as the Great American Holocuast. Deal wid it chump.
What did the South seceding have to do with that?
Is this where you cite a massive wall of text to proclaim Holocaust means something this naive liberal doesn’t understand.
Yeah, I’ve had enough fun with you.
True but it was Not I using the term…I prefer to calll them mexican or puerto rican …depending on the particular country they are from…guatamala, honduras, el salvador etc.
I meant, if you want to be taken seriously or deserve to be taken seriously, don’t refer to it as the War Between the States. Only Cornfed-symps do that. “Great American Holocaust,” now, is a new one on me; I suppose you coined it?
Definition of holocaust (n)
bing.com · Bing Dictionary
hol·o·caust
[ hóllə kàwst ]
1.destruction of human life: wholesale or mass destruction, especially of human life
It was all because Lincoln hated white people.
Shit, he was a lawyer! For the railroad, no less! No wonder he was an atheist, with such gloomy prospects for Eternity.
Yes it was all georges fault anyhow. heh heh
Obama needs a sign on his desk like Truman had…THE BUCK STOPS HERE
How long are you liberals willing to let obama keep passing the buck?
No, it couldn’t have. The South was unable to stand not being in charge.
It was the fault of the South; and considering the evil it overthrew, it was worth it.