re: #1 freetoken

Nice try.

But… have you considered that Lincoln could have been wrong, too?

At least, he’s overstated the case.

I wouldn’t criticize what Lincoln wrote. No one is claiming that there were not antislavery voices among the Founders, or that they did not, in many cases, hope for a future in which solutions might be found that would end slavery. (Lincoln presided over the final crunch on the matter.)

What is being argued against is the idea that ending slavery was a motivating force behind the Revolution, or that the Founders worked ‘tirelessly’ to end it. It was not, and they did not. Sam Adams and Ben Franklin might get that title. Mostly, they saw it as an unavoidable social evil, or, alternately, an acceptable social practice.

I am sick to death of people coming out with these insane, self-serving statements, and then having people try to find something that sounds sort of alike by someone with qualifications to prove it’s really so. Try again.