Happy Birthday Mr. President!!!

[tompritchett]

The "W" that you keep throwing out was not a lone "W". It was actually if you looked, part of "good ol' JW" meaning John Wilkes, as in BOOTH. 5 years, meaning 5 years too late.

My mistake and I am sorry.

[tompritchett]

he has lots of company from the secessionists - it took two sides to make that war.

The names of Yancy and Rhett particularly come to mind as it seems to me that they did every thing that they could to make sure no last minute compromises would be made which might brought the name back together peacefully.

[3rd_PA_Artillery]

deletion - THP; modern political commentary
May mr lincoln rot in damnation forever for what he did to this country.

A question from my non-reenacting friend and myself.

What exactly did he do that angers you so?

[agrnbrt]

A question from my non-reenacting friend and myself.
What exactly did he do that angers you so?

How about throwing out the constitution for one?
Waging war without congressional approval?
Imprisoning memebers of congress without trial because of Southron sympathy? Not to mention locking up people in Maryland because they spoke out against the "union"?
Or perhaps the riots and the massacre in baltimore, ala Tiannemen Square(sp)? Gee we all cried and yelled "FOUL", when the Chinese did yet. But it was ok for lincoln do order it?
Using foreign troops against Americans? Yes, he gave a "bounty or bonus", what ever youd like to call it to foreingers who enlisted.
How about the whole amancipation bull sh*t. He amanicpated all the blacks in the South only. Nice of him considering the South had broken free of the union all ready. So what jusrisdiction did lincoln have over another sovereign nation? And how about that fact that the north still had slaves working on the new york city docks, in hartford ct. and other places up to 7 years? SO much for lincolns amancipation.
Enough for you? Need more?

[sbl]

I hear he was bad speller too.

[tater]

I'm sure he's in Heaven right now Mr. agrnbrt, proud of what he did to this country in the liberation of blacks from white tyranny. I know I am proud of him.

Thankfully for you, I will say no more.

I think he is in the eighth circle of **** with sherman, mengele, stalin, and Marx.

[3rd_PA_Artillery]

How about throwing out the constitution for one?
Waging war without congressional approval?
Imprisoning memebers of congress without trial because of Southron sympathy? Not to mention locking up people in Maryland because they spoke out against the "union"?
Or perhaps the riots and the massacre in baltimore, ala Tiannemen Square(sp)? Gee we all cried and yelled "FOUL", when the Chinese did yet. But it was ok for lincoln do order it?
Using foreign troops against Americans? Yes, he gave a "bounty or bonus", what ever youd like to call it to foreingers who enlisted.
How about the whole amancipation bull sh*t. He amanicpated all the blacks in the South only. Nice of him considering the South had broken free of the union all ready. So what jusrisdiction did lincoln have over another sovereign nation? And how about that fact that the north still had slaves working on the new york city docks, in hartford ct. and other places up to 7 years? SO much for lincolns amancipation.
Enough for you? Need more?

Yup, I want more. I want all you got on what Lincoln did wrong. And I mean what he actually did wrong, not what you think he did wrong.

[Pvt. Sweetey]

How about throwing out the constitution for one?
Waging war without congressional approval?
Imprisoning memebers of congress without trial because of Southron sympathy? Not to mention locking up people in Maryland because they spoke out against the "union"?
Or perhaps the riots and the massacre in baltimore, ala Tiannemen Square(sp)? Gee we all cried and yelled "FOUL", when the Chinese did yet. But it was ok for lincoln do order it?
Using foreign troops against Americans? Yes, he gave a "bounty or bonus", what ever youd like to call it to foreingers who enlisted.
How about the whole amancipation bull sh*t. He amanicpated all the blacks in the South only. Nice of him considering the South had broken free of the union all ready. So what jusrisdiction did lincoln have over another sovereign nation? And how about that fact that the north still had slaves working on the new york city docks, in hartford ct. and other places up to 7 years? SO much for lincolns amancipation.
Enough for you? Need more?

1: Waging war without congressional approval

Ha! If you recall, The south attacked the US first. This was a pretty good
reason to call war without all the democrats n Republicans fussing over what to do. Lincoln made a good call waging war with the south because THE SOUTH ATTACKED US FIRST.

2: Riot

Duh. What would YOU do if there was a riot?

3: Using foreign troops against Americans

Uh... you mean using foreign troops against CONFEDERATES..
Same thing happened in the Revolutionary War. The British used Hussian troops against the colonists, whom of which most of them were from ENGLAND... Also notice those "foreigners" were actually immigrants that moved to the US prior to the war. They did not hire men from outside the States. Please do correct me if I'm wrong.

4: Emancipation Proclaimation

Yes but not only did the proclaimation free all southern slaves but also northern slaves. Of course that doesn't mean the North never had another black slave again, but that proclaimation said that they now had the right to be free. The slaves in the South heard of this and made them want to run away from to the north. Can anyone explain this better?

Please humor me to more as like Lincoln, I do not wait for congressional approval to wage war.

[sbl]

"....riots and the massacre in baltimore.."

Well, they shouldn't have messed with Massachusetts. It was Patriot's Day.

[sbl]