Is Trent Lott Right asserting that Jefferson Davis was a hero?
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Jefferson Davis was a traitor against this country, no matter how many speak up to say he was a great man he committed treason. The entire insurrection called The Civil War was an act of treason
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With the Assassination of Lincoln, the Presidency fell upon an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views. Although an honest and honorable man, Andrew Johnson was one of the most unfortunate of Presidents. Arrayed against him were the Radical Republicans in Congress, brilliantly led and ruthless in their tactics. Johnson was no match for them. \n\nBorn in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808, Johnson grew up in poverty. He was apprenticed to a tailor as a boy, but ran away. He opened a tailor shop in Greeneville, Tennessee, married Eliza McCardle, and participated in debates at the local academy. \n\nEntering politics, he became an adept stump speaker, championing the common man and vilifying the plantation aristocracy. As a Member of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 1840's and '50's, he advocated a homestead bill to provide a free farm for the poor man. \n\nDuring the secession crisis, Johnson remained in the Senate even when Tennessee seceded, which made him a hero in the North and a traitor in the eyes of most Southerners. In 1862 President Lincoln appointed him Military Governor of Tennessee, and Johnson used the state as a laboratory for reconstruction. In 1864 the Republicans, contending that their National Union Party was for all loyal men, nominated Johnson, a Southerner and a Democrat, for Vice President. \n\nAfter Lincoln's death, President Johnson proceeded to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. He pardoned all who would take an oath of allegiance, but required leaders and men of wealth to obtain special Presidential pardons. \n\nBy the time Congress met in December 1865, most southern states were reconstructed, slavery was being abolished, but "black codes" to regulate the freedmen were beginning to appear. \n\nRadical Republicans in Congress moved vigorously to change Johnson's program. They gained the support of northerners who were dismayed to see Southerners keeping many prewar leaders and imposing many prewar restrictions upon Negroes. \n\nThe Radicals' first step was to refuse to seat any Senator or Representative from the old Confederacy. Next they passed measures dealing with the former slaves. Johnson vetoed the legislation. The Radicals mustered enough votes in Congress to pass legislation over his veto--the first time that Congress had overridden a President on an important bill. They passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which established Negroes as American citizens and forbade discrimination against them. \n\nA few months later Congress submitted to the states the Fourteenth Amendment, which specified that no state should "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." \n\nAll the former Confederate States except Tennessee refused to ratify the amendment; further, there were two bloody race riots in the South. Speaking in the Middle West, Johnson faced hostile audiences. The Radical Republicans won an overwhelming victory in Congressional elections that fall. \n\nIn March 1867, the Radicals effected their own plan of Reconstruction, again placing southern states under military rule. They passed laws placing restrictions upon the President. When Johnson allegedly violated one of these, the Tenure of Office Act, by dismissing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, the House voted eleven articles of impeachment against him. He was tried by the Senate in the spring of 1868 and acquitted by one vote. \n\nIn 1875, Tennessee returned Johnson to the Senate. He died a few months later.
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No, but I do recognize that this work of fiction did incorporate amounts of fact, and largr amounts of supposition.\n\nBTW - By your attitude, calling others ignorant, you do not do your cause any justice, my friend.
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Can you give a little more info?  This is one theory from the right-wing attack poodles that I haven't heard yet.\n\nCan I play the game too then?  I want to pose a theory that the American Civil War started because of the supposition of the denial of the flat-world.  Abe Lincoln was a full believer in the heretic lie that the world is round, and so I think those good God-fearing Southerners made sure he knew just how wrong he was.
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Lincoln was not an abolitionist at first, but when Uncle Tom's Cabin was released, he believed it was wrong. He wasn't just upholding the law because then, it was not illegal to have slaves. The 13th Amendment wasn't made until after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.
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I think he cared too much. He was one of the "good guys" and as they say "good guys finish last" He brought about such wonderful God ordained ideas, it is such a sad thing to see the civil rights movement in portion go astray from these ideals.
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DuBois saw Lincoln as a whole being. He appreciated what he did  with the E.P. of 1863, and I think that he hopes that Lincoln believed what he did was right. He also saw ,what to some of the more refined, aristocratic politicians were Lincoln's less appealing qualities.  Perhaps DuBois found this to be  the basis of Lincoln's understanding for the situation of the slave and the need to rectify the situation .Lincoln also realized that if the country was allowed to be driven apart that the truth in United we stand, divided we fall would become only too real. Washington started it, Lincoln held it together and Churchill saved it. Our country and freedom. And yes I am, as my name would suggest from the South.
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I do. I think he should be an inspiration to everyone. He did a lot to help people. He chose to help people through non violence ways. He is something we should all strive to achieve to be like.......
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He was absolutely correct.  However, he intended that they should be educated in what he would have called "Republican Principles". (Which has nothing to do with what Republican means today as a party name, and meant instead limited central power for certain listed or "enumerated" functions, with most real power reserved to the people at the State and local level.)  But with the liberal slant of education today what students get is politically correct brainwashing rather than true education on the principles that would make good government.  Too many of todays teachers teach that big government is good and right (rather than wasteful, inherently corrupt, and self destroying).  That "rights" means entitlement and government policing (rather than liberty and freedom to make free choices to as large an extent and in as many areas of life as can be possibly realized without threatening the nation's ability for self defense, or internal harmony).  \n\nYes Jefferson was absolutely right, but he did not forsee that his radical republican ideals would be outdistanced by more radical socialist or social democratic ideals.  Jefferson believed the role of government was to provide liberty and justice to allow people who worked hard to keep the fruits of their labor.  Many people today believe government's role is to provide security and "a minimum standard of living" to everyone whether they work hard or not out of a big central honey pot (which naturally draws flies and puts a strain on the "worker bees") filled with about 30% of everything an American earns in a lifetime (unless, of course you can afford to lobby for loopholes or subsidies or whatever, then you can keep maybe 15%)\n\nJefferson wanted freedom for people to work and earn what we today would call "the American Dream".  The liberal agenda of today is working to consume the American dream to save the poor, the lazy, and the drug addicts from themselves, and the ultimate result will be to take so much of what people earn to support the social programs and their expensive bureaucratic machinery, that the incentive for hard work will be erased and everybody will see that its easier to live off the state and do drugs than to work and create like our forefathers did.\n\nYou can't legislate a "Great Society" you have to let the people pursue their own interests and goals while carrying as little deadweight (Bureaucrats and Bureaus and entitlees)as possible.  The natural result of freedom in a free economy is that people find a useful niche and produce economically.  The natural result of the "safety net" is that a certain percentage who fall into it are satisfied there and never climb out.  Thus you come to the basic flaw of the liberal agenda, somebody has to hold up the net, and it keeps getting heavier and heavier.\n\nUnfortunately, the conservatives of today do not believe in limited government either.  America only has limited government in history class these days.
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I love this "GUY"! I am assuming that you most likely know something about the Confederacy. Isn't this a mirror of Robert E. LEE. Hitler most certainly looked at some of his strategies to promote suicidal troops with the Civil War. General Lee was also a graduate of West Point along with General Grant. This whole thing has been written before is my point. This ridiculous continuation of NEO-CONSERVATIVE policies as the Nazis that they are, is getting real old, and you know that it wont last. Keep up the Good Work, and don't let them abuse you.
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I believe it was Abraham Lincoln,her is some info...\n\nAbraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the 348 acre (1.4 km²) Sinking Spring Farm in the Southeast part of Hardin County, Kentucky, then considered the frontier (now part of LaRue Co., in Nolin Creek, three miles (5 km) south of Hodgenville), to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. Lincoln was named after his deceased grandfather, who was scalped in 1786 in an Indian raid. He had no middle name. Lincoln's parents were uneducated, illiterate farmers. When Lincoln became famous, reporters and storytellers often exaggerated the poverty and obscurity of his birth. However Lincoln's father Thomas was a respected and relatively affluent citizen of the Kentucky backcountry. He had purchased the Sinking Spring Farm in December 1808 for $200 cash and assumption of a debt. The farm site is now preserved as part of Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site. His parents belonged to a well that had pulled away from a larger church because they refused to support slavery. From a very young age, Lincoln was exposed to anti-slavery sentiment. However, he never joined his parents' church, or any other church, and as a youth ridiculed religion.\n\nThree years after purchasing the property, a prior land claim filed in Hardin Circuit Court forced the Lincolns to move. Thomas continued legal action until he lost the case in 1815. Legal expenses contributed to family difficulties. In 1811, they were able to lease 30 acres (0.1 km²) of a 230 acre (0.9 km²) farm on Knob Creek a few miles away, where they then moved. In a valley of the Rolling Fork River, this was some of the best farmland in the area. At this time, Lincoln's father was a respected community member and a successful farmer and carpenter. Lincoln's earliest recollections are from this farm. In 1815, another claimant sought to eject the family from the Knob Creek farm. Frustrated with litigation and lack of security provided by Kentucky courts, Thomas decided to move to Indiana, which had been surveyed by the federal government, making land titles more secure. It is possible that these episodes motivated Abraham to later learn surveying and become an attorney.\n\nIn 1816, when Lincoln was seven years old, he and his parents moved to Spencer County, Indiana, he would state "partly on account of slavery" and partly because of economic difficulties in Kentucky. In 1818, Lincoln's mother died of "milk sickness" at age thirty four, when Abe was nine. Soon afterwards, Lincoln's father remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston. Sarah Lincoln raised young Lincoln like one of her own children. Years later she compared Lincoln to her own son, saying "Both were good boys, but I must say — both now being dead that Abe was the best boy I ever saw or ever expect to see." (Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald, 1995)\n\nIn 1830, after more economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on government land on a site selected by Lincoln's father in Macon County, Illinois. The following winter was especially brutal, and the family nearly moved back to Indiana. When his father relocated the family to a nearby site the following year, the 22-year-old Lincoln struck out on his own, canoeing down the Sangamon to Sangamon County, Illinois, in the village of New Salem. Later that year, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to New Orleans via flatboat on the Sangamon, Illinois and Mississippi rivers. While in New Orleans, he may have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on him for the rest of his life. Whether he actually witnessed a slave auction at that time or not, living in a country with a considerable slave presence, he probably saw similar atrocities from time to time.\n\nHis formal education consisted of perhaps 18 months of schooling from unofficial teac
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You can really twist the facts around.\nFunny.\nDemocrat KKK Robert Byrd is Democrat Hero.  Typical of The Democrat Plantation.\nLimbaugh again shows greatness.\nSan Francisco is still a bunch of fun freaks.\nDid Bush say he was going to increase troops? \nIf so, I missed it.   He will do what his Generals think best.
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He worked for the Railroad which was the Haliburton of its time...so did Lincoln, Shereden, and all sorts of people working for the Gov. Build the transcontinental railroad in a northern or southern route? Did that have anything to do with Civil War? And the Illinois Central was the competition with the Mississippi river. Funny how all those guys worked f0r that railroad. Oh after Lincoln was killed and Johnson impeached he had the power to do his evil. Killed the rest of the Indians out west.
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"One who, like Sitting Bull, believed it essential to protect those and that which filled his heart."\n- This answer baffles me. Is he saying that the US Army was protecting themselves when slaughtering the Lakota?\n\nAs for the Christian soldier, I think his name was Biff Johnson. Or some stupid name like that.
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nope. he's a congressman. it's his father who i think you could consider a hero.
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Yes I do, he has the heart an soul to do good.I think that if people get behind him ,he will do a good job.
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white norhterner slave abolitionist during pre civil war times.  He wrote the antislavery paper "The Liberator." History test tomorrow? me 2. :-D