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In reply to the discussion: The South was not sufficiently punished after the war [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)26. History has proven Lincoln wrong on that
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Excellent point. I am always saying cant we please publicly shame them, but it needed to
randys1
Jun 2015
#1
I think the op was suggesting something more like Germany after the Great War.
TheManInTheMac
Jun 2015
#11
Well put. What James McPherson refers to as the "Second American Revolution" was only
KingCharlemagne
Jun 2015
#95
There was a little of the OP's suggestions in how we treated Germany and Japan after WWII.
backscatter712
Jun 2015
#110
If we (northen born) can't forgive and get over the war, how do we expect our (southern born)
Nobel_Twaddle_III
Jun 2015
#15
Is saying that the Grant administration was the most corrupt up to that time
Art_from_Ark
Jun 2015
#127
I wouldn't bulldoze them, but I'd revoke the veteran status Confederate soliders
SpartanDem
Jun 2015
#39
Apparently there are several DUers that would willingly bulldoze a Confederate
oneshooter
Jun 2015
#125
Punishments harden people into resisting. The South need a federal education system. nt
NCjack
Jun 2015
#21
We've let the white South be in denial that their ancestors were on the wrong side
SpartanDem
Jun 2015
#24
Hirohito was symbolic...Tojo was hung, as were numerous other military leaders
alcibiades_mystery
Jun 2015
#69
Lincoln wanted to keep the United States together, punishing the South would've driven a wedge
NightWatcher
Jun 2015
#27
Agreed. If only they could have used the Allied example of 1918 as a template
Pooka Fey
Jun 2015
#36
Indeed, this is why Lincoln is one of the histories greatest disappointments to me.
ncjustice80
Jun 2015
#57
Slavery is a gross human rights violation, and I'm sure they continued operation during the war.
ncjustice80
Jun 2015
#117
You have unintentionally showed a big reason why Lincoln was such a great man (nt)
Nye Bevan
Jun 2015
#63
Next maybe you'll give us your ideas about how every white person should be made to pay for their
cherokeeprogressive
Jun 2015
#65
While blacks were not elevated mostly because the north was also racist as fuck
TheKentuckian
Jun 2015
#84
The freed slaves should have been given 40 acres and a mule. But they weren't. Why? Because the
raccoon
Jun 2015
#86
...not to mention huge amounts of Southern land passed into then hands of Northerner's ownership.
ladjf
Jun 2015
#96
It's the WEATHER! Northern refugee here, seeking to move from Illinois to Maryland.
raging moderate
Jun 2015
#103
Everyone who fought that war is long dead. Those who made it to the 1913 Gettysburg reunion
struggle4progress
Jun 2015
#119