SagaDraco
February 6th, 2003, 02:07 PM
"In May 1861 the New York Journal of Commerce published a list of 100 Northern newspapers that opposed the Lincoln administration. Lincoln ordered the Postmaster General and the army to shut them all down. A few of them reopened only after promising not to criticize the Lincoln administration. Dozens of newspaper editors and owners were thrown into military prisons without the issuance of a warrant or formal charges made since Lincoln had unilaterally suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus. Roaming gangs of federal soldiers and Republican Party activists literally demolished the printing presses of some of the opposition newspapers. Other editors and newspaper owners were tarred and feathered by the same mobs. ... Hundreds of newspapers were shut down, overall, and dozens of editors and owners imprisoned. This was enough tyranny to create total censorship. No paper would dare criticize the Lincoln administration after this demonstration of despotism. Yet Winik writes that Lincoln was only guilty of "occasionally closing newspapers."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo39.html
Lincoln was also extremely racist, a fact lost upon many today. There's even an old joke.....after three days of binging on booze and being told he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, he said. "I did WHAT?!?" But some actual quotes and actions of his:
"In his reply to Stephen Douglas on 18 September 1858, scarcely five years before he issued his celebrated Emancipation Proclamation and altered the course of the war to an attack on Southern slavery as a calculated "war measure" to cripple the "enemy," Lincoln stated: I will say... that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about, in any way, a social and political equality of the White and Black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with White people."
SPEECH AUG. 14, 1862
"There is no difference between hogs and negroes!"
SPEECH PEORIA ILL. OCT 16, 1854
"All men are created equal, except negroes, foreigners and catholics!"
"Lincoln supported his home state's law, passed in 1853, forbidding blacks to move to Illinois. The Illinois Constitution, adopted in 1848, called for laws to "effectually prohibit free persons of color from immigrating to and settling in this state."
And people complain about Bush part 2 and Ashcroft?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo39.html
Lincoln was also extremely racist, a fact lost upon many today. There's even an old joke.....after three days of binging on booze and being told he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, he said. "I did WHAT?!?" But some actual quotes and actions of his:
"In his reply to Stephen Douglas on 18 September 1858, scarcely five years before he issued his celebrated Emancipation Proclamation and altered the course of the war to an attack on Southern slavery as a calculated "war measure" to cripple the "enemy," Lincoln stated: I will say... that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about, in any way, a social and political equality of the White and Black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with White people."
SPEECH AUG. 14, 1862
"There is no difference between hogs and negroes!"
SPEECH PEORIA ILL. OCT 16, 1854
"All men are created equal, except negroes, foreigners and catholics!"
"Lincoln supported his home state's law, passed in 1853, forbidding blacks to move to Illinois. The Illinois Constitution, adopted in 1848, called for laws to "effectually prohibit free persons of color from immigrating to and settling in this state."
And people complain about Bush part 2 and Ashcroft?