Anyone know the truth about ol Honest Abe?
He wasn't really in the freeing slaves business...

In his first inaugural address, Lincoln stated clearly that (1) he had no legal authority to interfere with slavery where it existed, (2) that he had no inclination or intention to do so even if he had the legal authority, (3) that he would enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, returning runaway slaves escaping to the North to their masters in the South, and (4) that he fully supported the Thirteenth Amendment then being debated in Congress which would protect slavery in perpetuity and was irrevocable. He later famously stated, “Do not paint me with the Abolitionist brush.”
Although there was some opposition to slavery in the country, the government was willing to concede everything the South wanted regarding slavery to keep it in the Union. Given all these facts, the idea that the South seceded to protect slavery is as absurd as the idea that Lincoln fought the war to end slavery. Lincoln himself said in a famous letter after the war began that his sole purpose was to save the Union, and not to either save or end slavery; that if he could save the Union without freeing a single slave, he would. Nothing could be clearer.

History is amazing if you're willing to actually know the truth.

Now... I think it is stupid to tear these monuments down.. Lincoln..Washington...Jackson or Lee....
But I have long thought it was stupid for people to declare Abe the protector and savior of the black peoples....

I just wonder if these idiots want to start going to work and school on Columbus Day...
he was a slave trader.

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