Why were Roman Catholics mostly against Lincoln?

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Lifer
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Stinkin Lincoln? So you're a pro-slavery anarchist? I guess it makes sense.

You hit on a hard place . I like the freeing of the slaves . But I hate the strengthening of fed over state government . Surely a people in a region should decide there own laws . Mn . shouldn't be governed by Eastern retards. in Federal government.
 

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Why does not liking Lincoln or disagreeing with most of the things he did during his Presidency automagically make you guys think that 1. someone's a racist or 2. they supported slavery? Lincoln was a terrible President. Also where the FUCK does the OP get off using the term "democrat" when referring to some Founding Fathers? Democracy was a dirty word if you used it around the Founding Fathers and at the time democrat = supporter of democracy.
 

k3n

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You hit on a hard place . I like the freeing of the slaves . But I hate the strengthening of fed over state government . Surely a people in a region should decide there own laws . Mn . shouldn't be governed by Eastern retards. in Federal government.

Subjugating other people, especially children to forced labor, including sexual gratification is not "right". U.S. was never a democracy to begin with, but a REPUBLIC.

The south was a ticking time bomb, which was bound to sellout to the brits and topple the Union any time soon in a 2 front war with canada. Neomercantilism FTMFW.
 

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You hit on a hard place . I like the freeing of the slaves . But I hate the strengthening of fed over state government . Surely a people in a region should decide there own laws . Mn . shouldn't be governed by Eastern retards. in Federal government.

Then you should really be hating on the 16th and 17th amendments to the US Constitution, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and a spineless Supreme Court scared into submission after Roosevelts attempt to pack the court. Lincoln bears very little responsibility for the growth of the Federal Government in the 20th century.
 

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Then you should really be hating on the 16th and 17th amendments to the US Constitution, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and a spineless Supreme Court scared into submission after Roosevelts attempt to pack the court. Lincoln bears very little responsibility for the growth of the Federal Government in the 20th century.
I agree except that Lincoln lead to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 with his National Banking Act.

As for the word "democrat", I guess I should've used the term Jeffersonian Republican. But we all make mistakes, don't we?
 

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I agree except that Lincoln lead to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 with his National Banking Act.

As for the word "democrat", I guess I should've used the term Jeffersonian Republican. But we all make mistakes, don't we?

you cannot equate being a troll and being stupid to a mistake,,,,
 

k3n

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I agree except that Lincoln lead to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 with his National Banking Act.

As for the word "democrat", I guess I should've used the term Jeffersonian Republican. But we all make mistakes, don't we?

LOLOL, the Lincoln's greenbacks were used to form the war efforts against the feudalist southerners, and eventually help the US to a "great power" that could kick almost any country's ass. If you wanna blame someone, blame your free marketeer idol, Grover Cleveland, for getting in bed with the wall street financiers and paving the road for the Federal Reserve act over 1.5 decades later. Woodrow Wilson a democrat was funded by financiers for his candidacy in exchange for approving the Federal reserve act. Remember that democrats and republican were literally opposites to what they are today until, FDR's anti-lynch/new deal policy.

William McKinley, another republican, was unfortunately assassinated in 1901 for standing up to the ruthless bankers as well. And no i'm not a democrat, but a neomercantilist.