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Abraham Lincoln; Great Leader or Tyrant?
Topic Started: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:43 pm (328 Views)
FaZ-
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I was more relating his professor to a demagogue, but close enough I suppose. I really don't see Lincoln needing to do so, volunteers for the Union were through the roof as soon as the South attacked.
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Tonic
Feb 29 2008, 10:17 AM
No, I'm sure he means some other clever observation, which of course only FaZ- is sufficiently astute enough to make. Hail FaZ- and his overwhelming intellect, which us simpletons can do little but gawk at in awe.

Lol.

Btw, I have fallen prey to that avatar of yours about 100x now.
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FaZ-
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DeMaGoG
Feb 26 2008, 11:35 PM
Also, slaves were given 1/3 of a vote (that fraction might be off but I'm pretty sure it is 1/3) so that didn't help the south's voting power enough to effect anything. Also, there were northern state's with slaves (states that didn't secceed).

And if the south were overrepresented, then how could Lincoln have won the election if he didn't win any of the southern states? That in itself is solid proof that the north had more power than the south in the national government.

Geofari if I remember right, they don't know if the north or south fired the first shot, so there is no telling who really started the war.

I'm not sure how I missed this post, but it pretty much ends the argument of you having a clue about this issue.

1.) You're arguing about the American Civil War and you don't even know about the 3/5 Compromise.

2.) The North had roughly two and a half times the population of the South. Hence, the South could be overrepresented (through slaves, who were contributing votes but not represented) but still fail to have a plurality. Slaves made up one third of the population in the South, and about one one-hundredth of the population in the North.

3.) The South bombarded Fort Sumter, there's no way the North could have fired the first shot.


Thanks for making it easy for me. =o
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Geofari
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FaZ-
Mar 30 2008, 02:13 PM
3.) The South bombarded Fort Sumter, there's no way the North could have fired the first shot.

i knew that was right!
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