[geeks] I just saw...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 @ 19:09 -0600, Brian Dunbar said:

> Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >> From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
> >> Slavery was allowed in Maryland until after the war. Lincoln was a 
> >> proponent of a "forgive and forget" type of policy. If he had lived, 
> >> things would have been very different in the post war south.
> > 
> > So J. W. Booth made it worse for his beloved South by shooting President Lincoln?
> > 
> > Lionel
> 
> Can't know for sure but .. probably.
> 
> Lincoln's policy of "malice toward none; with charity for all" wasn't
> popular with the Radicals; they'd won a war and were by-God going to act
> like it.

It is worth noting that the Union generals were much the same.

Of course, Sherman was probably thinking of his immortal soul, after the
rape and murder he had committed in his bloody march.

> Reconstruction is not the prettiest episode in this nation's history.

Neither was the trampling of the Constitution, loss of southern state
sovereignty, and the change to the republic that came about.

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