chester1080 (July 13, 2008 at 3:00 am)

Tommy: That is true. Edward Everett Spoke first.. Long rambling speech reminiscent of the times. Lincoln's speech was over so quickly, people were stunned. Then the words sank in.. till to this day, every word has been analyzed over and again. Much like Hamilton/Jay.Adams Federalist papers If words can create nations, It is these words, and his second innuagural speech that remade america in a post civil-war era. Awesome Awesome words. Truly a Man for His Time, and a Man for ALL Time.

Tommy12435 (July 12, 2008 at 11:17 pm)

correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Lincoln speech was first met with lukewarm respnse?

lastminuteregret (June 27, 2008 at 5:21 pm)

No he made sure that the great constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence were actually followed. Slaves were human beings, and to follow the true meaning of the great United States it was his duty to free them in a land where all men are created equal. Otherwise, we aren't the America we claim to be: a nation where everyone has equality. Plus, slavery wasn't the biggest cause of the civil war.

Signofarchangel (June 27, 2008 at 3:30 am)

Hey, you uneducated ignorant fuck: where do you live? It's probably some part of the country that just got heard 9/11 happened. Go fuck your cousin you bastard. And then it's baboon's like you that want to profess some word of God.

kashsoldier (June 9, 2008 at 12:00 pm)

he didn't just free them !! Lincoln made sure, that those who opposed freedom for slaves were killed and buried !!

sk8er98567 (June 9, 2008 at 2:13 am)

lincoln shouldnt have freed the niggers

jagosto1 (May 16, 2008 at 5:27 pm)

Lincoln's view of slavery: "I hate it [slavery] because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world -- enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites -- causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty ---".

mpolzkill (May 15, 2008 at 1:50 pm)

As I was eating breakfast, the full idiocy of your comment just struck me. He of course, wished to risk as little as possible in this case, which is why the Proclamation ONLY applied to slaves in areas he DIDN'T have control over. So obviously, he was pretty worried about Kentucky as well as Britain.

mpolzkill (May 13, 2008 at 11:58 pm)

No states ultimately seceded. What was the big risk? That to subjugate all Americans he'd have to hire even more thugs & conscript even more of the poor to murder even more people? I think he had it in him. I will agree that he was a daring, cunning & extremely successful mass-murderer, but I think he may have been more worried about Britain than Kentucky, so how is that risking "everything", orthodox simpleton?

GShock112 (May 13, 2008 at 9:24 pm)

After u see a quack, go to a bookstore and get yourself some book to read on the subject. Lincoln risked everything with the emancipation proclamation, especially in the bordering states that could also have seceded!