Abrahams cussing

[Rob Wick]

This strikes me as much ado over nothing. Did Lincoln curse? Yes. Did the F-word exist during the Civil War? Of course it did. Lincoln was a product of the frontier. Think about this. If you look into a cabin like the one Lincoln grew up in, the first obvious point is that there is no privacy. Adults were engaged in adult behavior right alongside (sometimes) sleeping children. It's a fact of life. Read accounts of revivals and preacher's memoirs from the time when Lincoln was growing up and one of the main complaints is that frontier settlers were vulgar and used vulgarity on a regular basis. To be honest, I'm a little surprised that James McPherson would deny the profanity aspects of this story.

Any time David Barton is quoted in a story, it automatically sets of an alarm in my mind. Barton is not a historian. He's a propagandist.

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Rob