Comments by "JI80" (@ji8044) on "Hillsdale College" channel.

  1. Because of the sad ending of his inept presidency, Ulysses Grant is not usually given the credit he deserves in terms of his work on behalf of both slaves and freedmen after the war. I credit Lincoln's meetings with Grant as a big factor in moving Lincoln's attitude toward black people both slave and free. Ron Chernow makes the case for this very well in his biography "Grant".
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  2. What a strange and weird comment since carnage and rape had been a regular feature of Southern slave ownership for centuries before the Civil War
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  3. Virtually all the slave holders in the US were church going Christians, to the extent we can ever know from this distance. The majority considered slaves to have been "the children of Ham" cursed by God to suffer eternal servitude.
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  4.  @millennialodyssey5956  Grant was abolitionist, another reason why his in-laws despised him. Now when I say abolitionist, I don't mean he helped runaway slaves. I mean he rejected slavery as a perpetual institution and desired its end.
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  5. No the Civil War did not have a moral dimension for Lincoln. He said the exact opposite. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." Lincoln was almost certainly our most masterful politician ever to become president. He waited to issue the Emancipation Proclamation until after a victory for that reason and restricted it to states in the Confederacy alone. It is said with some justification that Lincoln never legally freed a single slave because the states of the Confederacy did not consider themselves to be under his jurisdiction at the time.
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  6. Partly true, partly false, however taken as a matter of faith by poorly educated Southerners to this very day.
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  7.  @TT-zl7ir  Minority true but yes they were all Christians. Why fight what is indisputable? They even used what was colloquially called the Slave Bible. "Formally titled Select Parts of the Holy Bible, for the Use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands, this volume was published in London in 1807, and contains a heavily redacted version of the King James translation." It made its way all through the slave holding areas of the US.
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  8.  @millennialodyssey5956  That's entirely false. Nothing in the OT forbids slavery and Mosaic Law specifically condones it.
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  9. But Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and made his own children slaves (though he freed them in his will) because Christians have very elastic definitions of good and evil.
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  10. So many misleading statements in this video, Lincoln never freed ANY slaves in the North or Border states. This whole sugar coating emancipation for the press is complete historical nonsense. Four days before he died Lincoln told Benjamin Butler, the following “I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes … I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country…”
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  11.  @millennialodyssey5956  I literally quoted the man and you did not. LOL Here is another one: "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Notice how there is nothing at all about ending slavery as God's will in his First inaugural Address. Now if you are talking about the Second Inaugural Address, then you have something but remember than came just 5 weeks before his own death and of course after the death of his son during the war. He was a very depressed/despondent man by then
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