tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519282270553046972.post4936701949875078688..comments2023-10-28T03:52:27.146-04:00Comments on LincolnFreak: Merry Christmas from the Lincoln White House, even if it is 140 years too lateLincolnFreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401583560486530636noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519282270553046972.post-42593248506204251202007-12-24T11:42:00.000-05:002007-12-24T11:42:00.000-05:00Last night, I stayed up until 2AM watching the Hit...Last night, I stayed up until 2AM watching the Hitler channel: I saw the show on the Lincoln assassination, followed by the Kennedy killing and thought of you! Happy Xmas.<BR/><BR/>I wonder what was in the missing pages of Booth's diary. I bet it was something like "That bastard Stanton hung me out to dry!" ;)<BR/><BR/>Was it predestined that Lincoln should go to the theatre even though he somehow knew it was a bad idea, or was it his free will that over-rode the spiritual warnings that he had?<BR/><BR/>Why would someone with so much to lose, like Booth, do something so crazy? Was he an egomaniac? A nutjob? Did he have some sort of unmentioned guarantee from the government that gave him confidence to act in such a way? Or was he a spurned lover? How could he so greatly misjudge what the public reaction would be to the assassination? Did Lincoln overstep the boundaries of the Constitution?<BR/><BR/>With 20/20 hindsight, the slavery thing looks so obviously wrong to us, but at the time, abolition must have appeared to Southerners as a form of economic warfare because businesses were entrenched in the econonic model of slavery and there were no reasonable alternatives offered to slaveholders to transition from a slave worker model to a free worker model. There also was rampant social rejection of African Americans as citizens both in the North and South. As freemen, they would have no social place and Booth perhaps saw the hugely negative social and economic repercussions of Abolition for the South.<BR/><BR/>Just some random thoughts for you, my dear.<BR/><BR/>Jlibrarian666https://www.blogger.com/profile/07796763252278280859noreply@blogger.com