September 7, 2004

• Gen. George McClellen

  “The President is nothing more than a well-meaning buffoon.” — General George McClellen of the Union Army

  Newspaperman Horace Greeley, seldom a defender of Lincoln, recognized that the Democrats had more in common with the Confederates than with their fellow Yankees. As setback piled up upon setback, as the death toll mounted, Greeley wrote, “Who does not see, that [Democratic candidate General McClellan’s] fortunes rise as the country sinks, and that his chances would be brightened by his country’s ruin?” And, while Rumsfeld praised his audience for liberating 25 million Iraqis from a brutal despot, he might have been thinking of how the Democrats of Lincoln’s day felt that liberating the slaves was not worth shedding American blood. One of the Democratic Party’s greatest orators argued, “We are not for propagating philanthropy at the point of the bayonet. We are not for wading through seas of blood in order to re-organize the whole social structure of the South.” The less subtle Democrats pointed out that Lincoln was advancing a course that would bring on “Negro Equality.” To be clear, this was, to the Democrats of that day, a terrible idea which would lead to “universal anarchy and ultimate ruin.” General McClellan himself believed that the Republicans only wanted to free the slaves and give them the vote to keep “permanent [Republican] control… through the votes of the ignorant slaves.” (This is one parallel which is not exact — Democratic views on whether blacks owe loyalty to a particular political party have since been modified.) – The American Thinker, May 19th, 2004

  It is sad to me, that someone can post the Gettysburg Address on a website and leave out the words “under God” which were indeed in the original words written by Lincoln.

  It’s so easy to change history. The problem with changing history is that if you change it too much, there is nothing left from which to learn. Ah, journalists.

  

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