Boston Bombing aftermath, any similarity to the Lincoln assassination aftermath?

[MaddieM]

(04-23-2013 05:21 PM)My Name Is Kate Wrote:  It's not like Jefferson Davis and the Confederates had nothing to do with all those deaths.

I've noticed that some on this forum are quick to point fingers at Lincoln and his Cabinet for unfairness to certain Americans, while at the same time defending someone who was fighting on the side of proponents of slavery.

This is turning into nothing more than an argument, not a rational and fair-minded debate.

You're absolutely right... both sides were complicit in many deaths. But you get my drift? Or perhaps not. The attack on Seward was appalling, but an act of war as Powell saw it. I think if we are fair and unbiased, we can see both sides of the debate.

None of this looks like an argument to me. People are just putting their point across.

I think that your mention of 'fighting on the side of slavery' is becoming a bit of a cliche in such debates. Surely one has to put one's mind set into that era to appreciate why people did what they did and their motivations. When I first learned that only around 5 percent of the southern population were actually slave owners, I was surprised because I'd always been led to believe that all Southerners owned slaves and plantations. I wondered why they would fight for their country if they did not own slaves... but then if you look at the history of warfare, it's almost tribal in it's psychology. It becomes a 'them and us' scenario, and sides must be taken. I don't think that Powell thought it was all about slavery. For him, he was just doing his duty as a soldier and being patriotic... no matter how misguided.

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(04-23-2013 07:37 PM)My Name Is Kate Wrote:  I may be fairly well-spoken, but I'm certainly not all that informed, and I do not have set opinions on lots of things for exactly that reason. What irks me is that all I was doing at the beginning of this thread was noting that there may have been some brainwashing going on in both the 1865 carnage and the present one. But I was immediately put down for suggesting that LTP was a terrorist, when I did no such thing. It seems that some people just cannot stand to have ANYTHING derogatory, even if true, said about their favorite historical character. And then the more I thought about it, the more I actually could see some elements of terrorism in both cases. But that was not my intention at the beginning.

I see nobody 'putting you down'. You're just being 'disagreed' with.