DBRP: What are your opinions on Abraham Lincoln?

Abraham Lincoln: Representative (W-IL), President (R) during our greatest internal crisis, and Senator (R-CA).

He has had perhaps the greatest impact on American politics of any American politician. His memoirs are best sellers to this very day.

My opinion is that he was our brightest light during our darkest hour. That without him the Republican Party wouldn't be the liberal, progressive party it is today, and might not even exist at all (in a form recognizable to us) without him. Without him our country would be split in two, or if not then the gash would not have healed as quickly or smoothly as it did in our world. He was the greatest American President yet to serve in office.

What are your opinions on Abraham Lincoln?

(OOC: POD is Booth's gun jammed, after successfully setting Reconstruction on the course he wanted before the end of his second term he retired to California. He eventually took a job as lawyer to pay the bills and from there things escalated until he found himself returning to Washington as a Senator for a single term. He dies peacefully of old age at 100, in bed and surrounded by his grandchildren.)
 
It will long be noted that Lincoln was the greatest lawyer the railroads could buy. Before he went to Washington he was on the payroll of the Illinois Central and in retirement he was on call for Stanford, Huntington and Crocker as the corporate lawyer for the Union Pacific. The man lined his pockets in the service of the railroads. Of course most historians completely gloss over that.

The are many books written about the case of Union Pacific vs. Li, which saw both Lincoln, representing Union Pacific and his former adversary, Jefferson Davis, representing Yuan Li, before the California Supreme Court. The case was a simple land grab scheme by the railroad which they thought they would easily win. Who would have guess that Davis would hand Lincoln his most publized defeats.

The court case served as the basis for the book 'The Octopus' which was later made into a movie (one of several). Walter Huston played Lincoln in the original production.
 

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Abraham Lincoln: Representative (W-IL), President (R) during our greatest internal crisis, and Senator (R-CA).

He has had perhaps the greatest impact on American politics of any American politician. His memoirs are best sellers to this very day.

My opinion is that he was our brightest light during our darkest hour. That without him the Republican Party wouldn't be the liberal, progressive party it is today, and might not even exist at all (in a form recognizable to us) without him. Without him our country would be split in two, or if not then the gash would not have healed as quickly or smoothly as it did in our world. He was the greatest American President yet to serve in office.

What are your opinions on Abraham Lincoln?

(OOC: POD is Booth's gun jammed, after successfully setting Reconstruction on the course he wanted before the end of his second term he retired to California. He eventually took a job as lawyer to pay the bills and from there things escalated until he found himself returning to Washington as a Senator for a single term. He dies peacefully of old age at 100, in bed and surrounded by his grandchildren.)

I say too many people are like you, goodsirrah, thoughtcleansed by the Republican Party (liberal and progressive only if you're White or Japanese, or if your family's been free for at least three generations)

Why don't people like you ever recall all the times that President Lincoln arrested the press and those working it? Why don't you recall how often Lincoln casually suggested sending all African-Americans back to Africa?

OR, at the very least, recall that Lincoln is the reason why no President is permitted by law to handle or be in the proximity of a firearm of any sort - lest The President off himself.


(OOC: without his martyrdom, Lincoln's offenses are not so easily brushed under the carpet; and with his ill health and mental problems, how'd he make it to 100?)
 
A Double Bladed Role Play.

It's the same thing you know as a DBWI, accept technically a DBWI a POD that happened IOTL like:

What if the North won the American Civil War? And then people make various outlandish statements.

There are proponents that say they are basically the same thing, and there are those who say they aren't. From what I've seen most people just done care to differentiate because most people don't make a big deal out of it and because it tends to confuse people who haven't encountered DBRPs.
 
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