>
>
> In a message dated 4/29/06 5:29:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> That *some* white people refused to come out and meet
> > him. He was a hero, even a saint, to a large portion
> > of the population. Read about his funeral and the
> > national mourning that took place after his
> > assassination.
> >
> > Judy, Lincoln only became a hero once the War was over or at
best
> > when there was light at the end of the tunnel, that the war
would
> > soon end with a Union victory. Until then, the press gave him
hell
> > and even one of the most beloved northern generals, McClellan
ran
> > for president against him. Lincoln did not have an easy time.
> > Victory changes every thing.
>
> The claim (which you snipped) was that all white people
> in the U.S. hated him because of the Emancipation
> Proclamation. That was not the case, of course. There
> was a very strong abolitionist movement and a lot of
> antislavery sentiment, and those people were ecstatic
> at the Proclamation.
>
> Judy I don't recall ever saying anything about *all* white people
> hating Lincoln because of his emancipation proclamation.
I didn't say it was you. I was responding to Jason,
who had written:
"At a particular point in time, Abraham Lincoln was the
most hated man in America. When he abolished Slavery the population
hated him with such intensity that the white people refused to come
out and meet him."
Please read my response in the context of that remark.
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