Abraham Lincoln

I have to read a lot of different articles for my multicultural class. I know that I'm weird, but it drives me nuts when people talk about Abraham Lincoln as if he was determined from the beginning to end slavery. In the article that I had to read it says this.

"...where Abraham Lincoln signaled his intention to run for president on an anti-slavery platfrom in 1860."

Uh...no. I'm extremely glad that slavery was ended, but we cannot learn from history if we twist it into how we wanted it to be. "America, a concise history" by Henretta says this.

"The national Republican convention chose Lincoln as its presidential candidate because his position on slavery was more moderate than that of the best-known Republicans, Senator William H. Seward of New York and Slamon P. Chase of Ohio, who demanded its abolition."

and

"Lincoln had long felt that human bondage was unjust but did not believe that the federal government had the consistutional authority ot tamper with slavery in the south."

Anyway, I just have a hard time with the fact that I have to read this article that is full of fallacies. It also stated that civil rights issues are more of an issue now days than they were in the 60s. Right, that's why we hear about groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers on the news all the time....oh wait, we don't! Blah, anyway, this was kind of a whiner post. lol. Lincoln has become my favorite president ever since I found this in "The Presidents: Tidbits and Trivia" by Frank and Melick

"Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, A. Lincoln"

Anyway, all in all, does it matter? No, I just had to get that off my chest. :)