Questions About John Brown

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WildBill
Root hog means more than you think. It is abandonment of the blacks as freed people and nothing less. Read Lerone Bennett, Jr., Forced into Glory...

After the Radical Republicans try to dump Lincoln in 1864 for Fremont, but fail, Lincoln joins with the War Democrats typified by Johnson. This is called the National Union Party. Lincoln ran as a National Unionist not as Republican his second term. Lincoln hopes to continue to include the War Democrats in postwar Republicanism when faced with the return of the white South to the Democrat fold...

Some amazing insights into history, Will Bill. So, in the 2nd term Lincoln abandoned the standard of Republican and ran as the Union Party. He'd been a Whig most of his short career, then switched to Republican for the 1860, then in 1864 Lincoln did not run as a Republican but instead the National Union Party. For Abraham Lincoln to actually say in terms of the survival of free Blacks "root hog or die" is a truly staggering remark.