I once read an opinion piece said to have been written by the minority of the Vermont delegation, the ones who voted against joining the Union. They objected to the pact with the devil that was the slave system. At that time, there was slavery in some Northern places, most notably in New York State right across the border from Vermont. It is a chilling opinion piece; every one of their dire predictions came true, including the Civil War and little children around the globe being taught to lisp curses on us.

-Laelth

As usual, Rude gets it.

Hearty R&

How did you beat 'meegbar' to the punch?



Peace

If he were still alive today he'd still be a Republican. At best he was a moderate on some issues and was actually responsible for much of the cold war despite railing against the military industrial complex. He was also responsible for a long shitlist of foreign policy fuckups not unlike the Republican war hawks of recent memory. Republicans don't have much use for him today because he ended a considerable amount of segregation, although the political pressures were too intense for him to do much else. Back then you still had a lot of Northern Republicans who were anti-racist at least relative to the times.

Lincoln was a progressive and would no doubt be a Democrat today along with Teddy Roosevelt.