By way of prologue, let me say that all of us like the Lincoln whose face appears on the penny. He is the Lincoln of myth: kindly, humble, a man of sorrows who believes in malice toward none and charity toward all, who simply wants to preserve the Union so that we can all live together as one people.
The Lincoln on the penny, had he lived, would have spared the South the ravages of Reconstruction and ushered in the Era of Good Feeling in 1865. The fact that this mythic Lincoln was killed is surely the ultimate tragedy in a tragic era. Indeed the most that any Southerner could say in behalf of the slayer of that Lincoln was what Sheldon Vanauken reported hearing from an old-fashioned Virginian:
“Young Booth, sir, acting out of the best of motives, made a tragic blunder.” But the Lincoln on the penny, the mythic Lincoln, did not exist. Instead a very real man, a political absolutist with enormous human weaknesses, for a time held the destiny of the nation in his oversized palm. So why do we dislike this Lincoln so much? There are many reasons, and here, just for starters, are three good ones:
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This is why I regard Abraham Lincoln as the worst President and biggest disaster in all of American history.
ReplyDeleteThis article was written in 2015, when the Indonesian Muslim immigrant, Barry Sotero, was sitting as President of the United States of America.
A very well written Article indeed illustrating the frailness of human beings. Hindsight-vs-Foresight. I am sure that all history will be rewritten again, and again, per the wants, wishes and desires of those elites in the know. Whether by the winners of the battles, and or, by the ones who lost. It has been done many times to the histories of man through dilution, deletion, omission, addition, reconstitution, reclamation and redistribution for a newly advanced Progressive re-education and re-programming, whatever the reason, cause or dictates.
ReplyDeleteI am confident that: WE WILL NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT ANYTHING ON THIS EARTH. It will all be explained at some point in the future at the feet of the Almighty Himself. It will all be laid bare for everyone to see and understand, so as to negate any doubt amongst us. There will not be a single one of us who has not played some small part (wittingly or unwittingly) in the narrative, during our miserable existence outside of His eternal Glory. We have all sinned in his eyes. Once it is all bared and exposed, every knee shall bend, and every head shall bow. Perhaps it is best to just Forgive and Forget. There isn't much any of us peons and common men can do to change the series of events long past or those which have yet to unfold. We simply can not understand what we don't know and understand. Live day to day, and be prepared for what ever may happen as best as you can. He has a Plan. It has been in the works since the inception and is eternal in nature. Our entire existence in this realm is but a tiny lil blip on the linear scope of history. TRUST IN HIM.
Sorry for the rant Brock. IMHAO, Man will always be Man. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, but always extremely LIMITED by design.
Live day to day, and be prepared for what ever may happen as best as you can.
DeleteGood advice.