Honest Abe was not so honest??

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The fact is, Honest Abe was not so honest, and President Lincoln was more Dictator Lincoln than anything. His campaign promises of freeing the slaves never happened, he was rumored to have cheated on his wife numerous times, he suspended Habeas Corpus, he deported a political rival, and he even considered deporting all freed slaves to Liberia.

Certainly sounds like a good guy, right? ...right?

Not so fast.

Lincoln campaigned in 1860 on the premise that all men were created equal, yet in August of 1858 he said "I have no
purpose to introduce political and social equality between
the white and black races..."

Lincoln campaigned for quality, yet in July of 1858 he said "What I would most desire would be
the separation of the white and black races."

Lincoln campaigned for the rights of slaves, yet in September of 1858 he said "I will to the very last stand by the law of this
state, which forbids the marrying of white people with
Negroes."


People say Lincoln was a defender of the Constitution.

This couldn't be more false.

Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus. At his command, but with absolutely no legal authority, he suspended 300 newspapers from production, censored all telegraphic communications, rigged elections in the North. Lincolin in his own writings said, he didnt think he would win relection, even though the south could not vote, so that means at the time less than 25% of the people liked him. If the people then didnt like him, why is he a hero Now.

Also he oversaw the intimidation of Democratic voters (in New York City hundreds of protesters against conscription were shot,) he unconstitutionally carved West Virginia out of Virginia, and he deported the most outspoken member of the Democratic Party, Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio. Duly-elected members of the Maryland legislature were goaled, so was the mayor and a Maryland Congressman. Lincoln disarmed citizens of the Border States, in complete disregard of the 2nd Amendment and he even seized private property.



Lincoln was a great humanitarian, you say?

Quite the contrary.

Lincoln waged war against the Southern civilians. He oversaw the destruction of entire towns and ordered his troops to murder women and children, massive looting, rape and execution without trial of non combatants. Sherman's March to the Sea, an order given by Lincoln, is one of, if not the worst acts of terrorism on United States soil.
The south was not able to vote for years after the war was over.



Was the Civil War necessary?

Absolutely not.

The entire war could have been avoided if Lincoln had not trapped the Confederate army into firing first at Ft. Sumter, thus allowing Lincoln to invade the South illegally. 620,000 soldiers died and as many as 250,000 civilians died in this unnecessary war.

Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and various French colonies all abolished slavery peacefully and by means of compensated emancipation. I guess Lincoln missed the memo.



Abraham Lincoln was a dictator, an imperialist, and a war criminal. He was never the Great Emancipator like so many believe, but he was arguably America's worst-ever president.