Carter without a doubt
Dee I am almost afraid to ask but what is your issue with Licoln? Just curious.
kinslayer1965, with you living in Florida, I am shocked that you don't know. The uncivil war was not about slavery at all, but was instead about EXPORT TARIFFS of textiles to Europe, and STATES RIGHTS. The southern states prior to Lincoln was paying over 70% of ALL taxes, and was selling their cotton and other textiles to Europe. The industrialized North want the cotton BUT, did not want to pay what the going price was. The President before Lincoln put a 10% tariff on the exported cotton, but it was STILL BETTER, than what the North wanted to pay.
DOES THIS SOUND A LITTLE FAMILIAR? NOW THE "INDUSTRIALIZED NORTH" WANTS THE "SOUTH" TO HELP "BAILOUT" THE "INDUSTRIALIZED NORTH'S CAR COMPANIES", WHILE THE SOUTHERN "NON-NORTHERN-NON-UNION CAR MAKERS" ARE NOT NEEDING A BAILOUT, AND THE "SOUTHERN AUTO WORKERS" ARE MAKING A GOOD WAGE. ONCE AGAIN, THE "INDUSTRIALIZED NORTH" WANTS TO TELLS US WE ARE "WRONG", AND IT IS OUR FAULT THEY ARE GOING BROKE. DON'T THINK SO.
BACK TO THE LINCOLN THING. SORRY!Lincoln stated that if elected he would DOUBLE the tariff to 20%, thereby FORCING the Southern States to sell to the Industrialized North at a cheaper price.
FLORDIA STATED, that if Lincoln won the election, that
FLORIDA WOULD SECEDE. South Carolina just beat them to it. As things progressed Lincoln INVADED THE SOUTH, killed millions of Southerners, ordered the burning of entire cities, and left thousands of Southerners homeless.
Had he not been assassinated he intended to DEPORT ALL BLACKS to Liberia. Think not on that last remark? Just do a search on Abraham Lincoln's Racist Remarks. His speeches were st-rune with racism. He was not the shiny penny everyone has distorted history to make him, and the war was not about slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was more about trying to break up the Southern economy, as the North was getting it's butt kicked in the fighting.
Lincoln was a racist of the worst sort, and considered Mexicans MONGRELS. He was a BIGOTED ELETIST! HE ENDED STATES RIGHTS, and started the procedure of eroding them ever since. Most all our Presidents since have added to his legacy. He actually OUTDID Roosevelt, and Bush, but Bush definitely got the ball rolling faster in his last term.
This is the problem with PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and APATHETIC AMERICANS. We don't know our TRUE HISTORY, and are easily MIS-LEAD, and have been for decades. None of this is imaginary, and is documented and available to ANYONE WITH THE ENERGY TO LEARN THEIR TRUE HISTORY, instead of the distorted one they were taught.
MANY THINK THESE FACTS TO BE UNIMPORTANT, HOWEVER OUR HEREITAGE IS HOW WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY. FORGET HISTORY, AND YOU ARE CONDEMED TO REPEAT IT! ANOTHER FACT.
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