Keeping in mind Southeners such has George Washington were enthusiastic proponents of stealing Indian Land.
Not true because slavery was perfectly legal in the British Empire until 1837. The Southern colonies were not in favor as the Northern colonies in eliminating slavery.
Lincoln never actually engaged in combat against the Indians.
The Illinois Indians were sent packing across the Mississippi River before he got the chance. It wasn't Lincoln's fought he didn't get the opportunity. He had volunteered to so, still boasting about as late as December 1859.
George Washington was heavily invested in the Ohio Valley company, you betcha, he was enthusiastic
True but he was also a Southerner and much admired by latter Confedrate leaders.
Yes a politican brags about military service and water is wet. Still Lincoln didn't actually fight Indians. Yes Union troops under his administration killed Indians but has pointed out many times before Indian civilians were killed by Confedrate troops as well under the Davis Adminstration. If we condem Lincoln for harming Indians so must we do the same for Davis.
Yet Lincoln evolved since his 1858 speech vs Davis and other Southern political leaders fought for racial superiority for many decades after the ACW.
Evolved or saw an opportunity for the Republican Party to dominate the South?
But of course, it is unfair (if not inaccurate) to freeze Lincoln's biased statement in 1858 as representing Lincoln's belief in his entire lifetime. Lincoln's views on African-Americans evolved quickly and positively during the war, by which time he at least acknowledged that community's political rights. Lincoln wrote on August 26, 1863:
A case of monkey see monkey do?
The South is part of the US . Its not like Southeners haven't expressed their political views post ACW. Americans have the First Amendment right to express themselves.
No it's a case of both sides killing Indian's.A case of monkey see monkey do?
How much of this evolving attitude was adopted out side the South?
If the Yankee nation was so eager to imitate everything Southerners did what's their beef against the South?
When was a black elected to a major political position in the North?
To be clear. I believe that social, political, and cultural racism (not talking here about slavery) was endemic to both north and south both before and after the war. Speaking of Lincoln only, however, it can be said that he was able to rise above his previously held racial beliefs under the impact of the role of African-American soldiers and his ties with Frederick Douglas.
I haven't read evidence that Lincoln's evolved views on African-Americans were simply a cynical political calculation on his part. That might have played a large part in the thinking of certain Radical Republicans, but Lincoln not.
Bringing the