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Entry: The Limits of Lincoln Bashing Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_limits_of_lincoln_bashing#24432 Post contents: OK Miss Marie <i>1) if the tariff issue was so important, why doesn’t it arise in the Lincoln-Douglas debates (remember boys, the main issue was slavery, ja?)</i> Lincoln opposed slavery <b>in the new territories</b>, not slavery as such. And why? He hated Black people and didn't want Blacks competing with Whites for the benefits of the Homesteading Act. Remember that in the IL state legislature, Lincoln supported Black Codes (Jim Crow was a Yankee invention) and even opposed allowing Blacks to move to ML. Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska act dealt with this. Remember "Bleeding Kansas"? The Whites in Kansas hated Blacks and fought to keep them out. This and the Dred Scott decision (also dealing with Blacks moving to territories and "Free" states) are the background of the 1858 debates. DOUGLAS, not Lincoln, the first debaate (Peoria) raised the question of Black settlement deliberately to embarrass Lincoln with the anti-Black racialist population of IL. Lincoln would have rather talked about the BUS and repealing the low Walker Tariff. What is more, in the Jonesboro debate, Lincoln clearly said that Blacks to be not the equals of Whites. Lincoln's real program was the American Colonization Society. The Abolitionists knew this, and did not support Lincoln in 1858 and 1860. Finally, Lincoln not only supported the Corwin Amendment, but was actually the instigator of it. So much for Father Abraham setting Blacks free. Were Miss Marie herself among the literate, she would bother to read Abe's FIRST Inaugural, where he made all this plain. Also made plain in that speech that he was going to afflict Dixie with the tariff. <i>2) the Morrill bill was passed AFTER seven states seceded in the South. How can the tariff then be the cause of secession? As the secessionists themselves admitted, it was all about states’ rights (especially the right to own slaves).</i> Because Lincoln ran on a pro-tariff platform! It got him the nomination when he the Pennsylvania delegation how pro-tariff he was. (note: PA) With his election the cotton states that seceded -- states that had to sell on an international market and would have been despoiled and reduced to destitution by the inflation and retaliation which the tariff would have caused (vide my next post). (and indeed, it took Dixie a century to recover economically ) <i>3) A Democrat still signed the bill into law, ok? </i>. And pray tell, Miss Marie, what state was James Buchanan from? PA! A state whose manufacturers pined for the high tariff. 4) if the paleolibs are so hot for the Confederacy, maybe they should read a book on how the Dixie Congress imposed tariffs too. So much for laissez-faire in the South!</i> already answered by another writebacker. So much for Miss Marie's literacy. Sent at: 2008 07 09