Abraham Lincoln was a Politician
Sorry if you aren't interested but - Someone named Micah posted online the question whether Abraham Lincoln was someone to look up to because he freed the slaves.
Well......... He was a Politician, and just as bad as any politician.
A writ of "Habeas Corpus" is a legal term that guarantees you the right to a fair trial. It requires that you be brought before an impartial Judge, and is what prevents you from simply being scooped up and held without charges.
Lincoln SUSPENDED this right on April 27th 1861 Lincoln suspended this right by Presidential proclamation. He went on to have the Military arrest 10's of Thousands of American Citizens, and hold them without a trial.In 1862, Lincoln wrote to Horace Greeley (the leading Northern newspaperman of the day): “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.”
Lincoln was a Republican, and he entered the war at the urging of Republican Congressmen, not to "Free the Slaves," but to restore the massive loss of Federal Tax Revenue that was no longer being collected from Southern States. (IMHO there will very soon be a second Civil War!!! Secessionists in the "Calexit" movement backed by Silicon Valley billionaire Tim Draper, have just last week been given the "Green light" by the California Legislature to begin collecting signatures on a ballot measure to leave the US and become a separate Country. California has the 7th largest economy in the World, and produces 98% of the US's fruits, and vegetables!!! Washington won't stand for the lost taxes, and there will be war. Other Western States will join California.)
On September 15, 1863 Lincoln declared martial law throughout the US, and by proclamation, suspended everyone's Constitutional rights.
On November 2nd 1864, Lincoln ordered General William Sherman to march from Atlanta to Savannah. Under Lincoln's orders the "Troops" engaged in a "Scorched Earth" Campaign, destroying all civilian infrastructure, houses, and seizing any agricultural products they could find. This included 5,000 horses, 4,000 mules, and 13,000 head of cattle, 9.5 million pounds of corn, 10.5 million pounds of fodder, and destroyed uncounted cotton gins and mills.
I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, I'm a "Voluntaryist"!!!
No matter which of the 2 parties is in power, they will seek more power, tax you more heavily, Screw you so their rich and corporate cronies can profit, erode your freedoms, and use the Military to seize the natural resources of sovereign foreign Nations!!!
And that is not the half of it.
If Lincoln was a great man, he would have avoided this war by making fair the tax burden. Instead, he pushed the south into a corner, and when they responded with, do not cross this line or else, he crossed that line (of course, using some cannon fodder instead of himself)
Yup, it was a real tragedy. I once toured the Gettysburg battlefield.... The Carnage was horrific.