Comments by "Patrick Cleburne" (@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558) on "How Lincoln Changed the World in Two Minutes | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. Exactly!
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  2. Because you celebrate your favored politicians leading invasions of other places and subjugating other people?
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  3.  @bulldogsbob  They could have owned slaves either way. That had nothing to do with their pursuit of independence.
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  4. H. L. Mencken: "But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves."
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  5. As if Republicans actually tried to take their slaves away! What BS! Lincoln: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." 1860 Republican platform: "That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential..."
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  6. All men are created equal means no one in England or in DC inherits a right to rule over the people of the southern states or any other states if those states should choose another government for themselves.
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