tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post537602439139656143..comments2024-03-28T09:13:04.373-04:00Comments on KIKO'S HOUSE: Abraham Lincoln As A True GeniusShaun Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14964214385216513188noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-34449161785404227112015-03-08T11:08:01.032-04:002015-03-08T11:08:01.032-04:00Please point out to me and the world how Virginia ...Please point out to me and the world how Virginia seceded from the union so people could defend an institution that had been around for hundreds of years and was guaranteed in the Constitution. No honest person would utter such a lie. Virginia seceded, along with several other Southern States because they believed a military invasion of the new Confederacy was a violation of the deeply American notion of "self-government". It was obvious to Virginians that the invasion was for the purposes of subjugation and not in the name of "freeing the slaves". No less than A. Lincoln said as much. Mr. Foote's remarks are an affront to any full understanding of the war period. I believe his "view" is no doubt a "compromise" with the Lincoln Myth. In order for him to gain wide, and indeed, national attention and respect, he is willing to justify a war of subjugation that just happened to include the freeing of slaves to put a moral veneer upon what was a vicious military tactic. Again, he said so himself. Let's keep any discussion of this period and this war upon the high plane of historical accuracy and the pursuit of unbiased truth.Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08320672274417424810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-83652976195964673342009-07-15T23:13:44.409-04:002009-07-15T23:13:44.409-04:00===
and the North admitting rather freely that the...===<br />and the North admitting rather freely that the South fought bravely for a cause in which it believed. <br />===<br /><br />I'm not sure of what value that is, since what the South was fighting for was the enslavement of a race for the purposes of profit. How could that even vaguely be construed as respectable?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11538249050564083323noreply@blogger.com