Reply #28: that's what i mean...

[pretzel4gore]

to take a guy like valladigham, still a hero to freepers types (which says alot imho) and portray him as a persecuted angel!.....it was Abe Lincoln who performed almost impossible feats of psychic strength to keep everything together, especially during early years when south seemed to be winning. I read Bruce Catton's civil war series which capture the feel of the era (american soldiers, when ordered to march for first time, laughed and asked the officers 'but WHY?') and valladigham was just the mouthiest and most brazen of alot of pro south northern dems who heaped abuse on Lincoln from safety of elected office.... there are freepers who claim Lincoln was a war criminal etc....
btw the official American belief that only the 'lone nut' is involved in US assasinations has always been a lie...2 of Lincoln's cabinet members were also shot at the time he was murdered.....it was a conspiracy tho John Wilkes Booth did Oswald's job apparently as only his part has ever been advertised in history books...