Word: lincolnization
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ARKANSAS' Senator William Fulbright sounding off against L.B.J.? Not by more than a century. It is Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln speaking during the Mexican War. To Lincoln, that war was both "unnecessary and unconstitutional," and his vehement protests were repeated by scores of other prominent critics. Lincoln's argument echoed an attitude that is as old as American history. For Americans have always looked upon war as an evil to be avoided whenever possible. Thus in 1846 there were those who wholly disapproved of the hostilities against Mexico-just as today there are those who wholly disagree with...
...Congress, Abe Lincoln proposed the famous "Spot Resolution," demanding that the Administration specify the exact spot on which Mexico had, in the words of Folk's war message, "shed American blood upon the American soil." Lincoln, like many other Americans, suspected that U.S. troops had provoked the incident inside Mexico. The war was particularly unpopular among U.S. intellectuals. Henry Thoreau spent a night in the Concord jail for refusing to pay his state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer...
...Abraham Lincoln-so recently a peace partisan himself-ironically was plagued by peace movements that all but destroyed the militancy of his cause. Northern foes of the war, contemptuously labeled "Copperheads" after the snake that strikes without warning, held a mass meeting in the President's own hometown of Springfield, Ill. They resolved that "a further offensive prosecution of this war tends to subvert the Constitution and the Government." Secret societies were formed on both sides. Southerners who called themselves "Heroes of America" gave clandestine support to the Union; Northerners organized as "Knights of the Golden Circle" recruited troops...
...Burnside, issued a general order: "The habit of declaring sympathy for the enemy will no longer be tolerated. It must be distinctly understood that treason, expressed or implied, will not be tolerated in this department." Ohio's Congressman Clement Vallandigham remained defiant. In a speech addressed to "King Lincoln," he cried: "Defeat, debt, taxation, sepulchers: these are your trophies! In vain the people gave you treasure and the soldier yielded up his life. The war for the Union is a most bloody and costly failure. What has been our success? Let the dead at Fredericksburg and Vicksburg answer." Vallandigham...
Workmen at a sewer near Lincoln Triangle got their first report from a crowd of boys returning from Fenway. "The Tigers are losing...