Abe Lincoln freed the slaves~~or so say the school teachers~~and Abe has perhaps the best reputation of any politician in American history, absent Mr. Jefferson~~slaveholder. Does Abe deserve his reputation? Let’s have a think~~
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Dieu et mon droit~~
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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It was a great speech~~one of the best~~but I was always in trouble at school because Lincoln is a sacred cow~~you can not even ask questions about him~~you simply must quietly make~~deep genuflection~~before him~~but to the southerners of my family Lincoln was no different from George 111~~both forced different generations and regions of the Americans to do what they did not want to do~~at the point of a gun~~
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~~Κύριε ἐλέησον~~
Rejoice and Glad!!
Amen~~
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In Memoriam~~
Abe Lincoln freed the slaves~~or so say the school teachers~~and Abe has perhaps the best reputation of any politician in American history, absent Mr. Jefferson~~slaveholder. Does Abe deserve his reputation? Let’s have a think~~
I can only conclude that while Abe freed some slaves, he imprisoned and enslaved his fellow American southern citizens and forced them~~at gun point~~to remain part of a nation they wanted to leave.
That all said~~Does Abe really deserve his near~universal veneration today~~and deserve to have his face on an American fin~~when his behaviour during the American war of secession constituted his turning his back on his fellow citizens of the south~~and enslaving them in a Union they no longer wanted to live in?