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      <![CDATA[Slavery was ended in 1866 with the Thirteenth Amendment, but at the cost of 620,000 lives; hundreds of thousands more that were crippled for life; and the near destruction of almost half the nation’s economy. By contrast, dozens of other countries (including Argentina, Colombia, Chile, all of Central America, Mexico, Bolivia, Uruguay, the French and Danish colonies, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela) ended slavery peacefully during the first 60 years of the nineteenth century. Why not the U.S.?
        
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      <![CDATA[Might want to do a little reading on Lincoln before praising him too much.  According to the book "Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream" by Ebony executive editor Lerone Bennett, Jr.:  "There is a pleasant fiction that Lincoln . . . became a flaming advocate of the [Thirteenth] amendment and used the power of his office to buy votes to ensure its passage. There is no evidence, as David H. Donald has noted, to support that fiction". <br>
 Read the book and you will see that real abolitionists in Congress forced Lincoln to support the 13th Amendment.
        
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      <![CDATA[To the bigots at the Anti-White Times the purpose of the presidency varies depending on which party controls the White House!
        
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      <![CDATA[This reminds me of the quote often attributed to Otto von Bismark:  "Laws are like sausages.  You don't want to see them being made."
        
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      <![CDATA[Wonderful and apt comparison, Mr. Dumas.
        
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      <![CDATA[I went to see "Lincoln" but was very disappointed to discover that it was all about Abraham Lincoln, not Blanche as I'd expected.  Guess I need to read reviews before I head down to the Rialto next time.
        
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