Quote of the day

[med_cat]

"There were some Republican leaders, feeling very blue indeed,

That their party, after hard fighting, had the ill luck to succeed..."
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Three guesses as to the source and timeframe...:P

Comments

[duathir.livejournal.com]

Abraham Lincoln.

They were right to feel blue. Lincoln's bad decision plunged this nation into a disastrous war, that we have still not recovered from. The US would have been better off if he had let the slave-holding states secede.

[med_cat]

Well done :)

And yes, perhaps the U.S. would've been better off, but isn't it also true that hindsight is always 20/20?

Here's the source of the quote:

http://med-cat.livejournal.com/1185919.html

[duathir.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I do not blame Lincoln; he could not have foreseen the consequences of his decision. Reconstruction would have gone much differently had he not been assassinated.

[med_cat]

Yes...