I believe President Trump will deal with this at least as wisely as Lincoln's followers, who gave General Robert E. Lee a generous (for that day_) term of surrender. Lee almost ended up as a Union general, but on the principle of the 10th Amendment, chose to follow his state into succession instead. Had Lincoln dealt with the South rightly, and respected the Tenth, he could have prevented much of the blood shed. But his whole mantra was, "The Union must be preserved!" (He only made slavery an issue after it proved to be more 'popular' than "the Union Must Be Preserved")
Lincoln not only suspended habeus corpus, but violated the 10th, 4th, 5th and a few others to justify keeping the Union together. He also permitted Northern States to keep their slaves throughout the war, and purported to free the Slaves in the Southern States, giving proof to the claim that his real issue was preserving the union, not freeing the slaves. That would come later, with the Thirteenth Amendment. (BTW, except as punishment for a crime is actually in the 13th...) He also placed on the Union the first 'Personal Income Tax' (aka tax on a man's labor) so that's one more reason to dislike Lincoln.
General Lee and President General Washington were related by marriage. Pretty sure that is why General Lee never faced any crimes. General Sherman and President Lincoln should have been brought up on war crimes. The media up North wanted them brought up on war crimes. But such talk was squashed. That is a very general overview. There is so much more to the story.
The preservation and extension of slavery into new states was the issue over which the South attempted to secede. My great-great-grandfather was in the Union forces (Illinois) and made no bones about the issue being slavery. He later died of wounds that did not completely heal. The Republican Party was an abolitionist party, and Lincoln's election prompted the south to make its move.
I believe President Trump will deal with this at least as wisely as Lincoln's followers, who gave General Robert E. Lee a generous (for that day_) term of surrender. Lee almost ended up as a Union general, but on the principle of the 10th Amendment, chose to follow his state into succession instead. Had Lincoln dealt with the South rightly, and respected the Tenth, he could have prevented much of the blood shed. But his whole mantra was, "The Union must be preserved!" (He only made slavery an issue after it proved to be more 'popular' than "the Union Must Be Preserved")
Lincoln not only suspended habeus corpus, but violated the 10th, 4th, 5th and a few others to justify keeping the Union together. He also permitted Northern States to keep their slaves throughout the war, and purported to free the Slaves in the Southern States, giving proof to the claim that his real issue was preserving the union, not freeing the slaves. That would come later, with the Thirteenth Amendment. (BTW, except as punishment for a crime is actually in the 13th...) He also placed on the Union the first 'Personal Income Tax' (aka tax on a man's labor) so that's one more reason to dislike Lincoln.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/tax/10/history-taxes.asp
I have no love lost for Lincoln, and the fact of President Trump's high regard for him rings alarm bells for me.
General Lee and President General Washington were related by marriage. Pretty sure that is why General Lee never faced any crimes. General Sherman and President Lincoln should have been brought up on war crimes. The media up North wanted them brought up on war crimes. But such talk was squashed. That is a very general overview. There is so much more to the story.
The preservation and extension of slavery into new states was the issue over which the South attempted to secede. My great-great-grandfather was in the Union forces (Illinois) and made no bones about the issue being slavery. He later died of wounds that did not completely heal. The Republican Party was an abolitionist party, and Lincoln's election prompted the south to make its move.
Well good thing its trump in charge.