Morning Star
Well-Known Member
Certainly the talks were there and it was on-going. I never, nor implied, that it shouldn't be ignored. However, bear in the mind that historians tend to glorify the leaders in the day as though they were without fault or did something crazy. Alcohol did play a factor in his decision to sign the EP and it helped resolved the issue from the Confederacy from seceding. It was difficult nonetheless. But still, it was the alcohol that did it.
You know you're implying that Lincoln signed the EP because Frederick Douglass got him drunk, instead of intense introspective deliberation over the course of the Civil War about what should be done about the 'Negro problem'??
Sorry, BBW, all respect, but that's barbershop talk.![]()