The Day By Day cartoon had a good one the other day. Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln on why, despite legacy media and career pol opposition, Sarah is still the best bet for the presidency: “I cannot spare this woman; she fights.”
UPDATE: Meanwhile, just as they did with California governor Ronald Reagan more than thirty years ago, the Left will go to any length to attack her. For instance, the snide producers of the Missoula Children’s Theater.
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“On this day in 1865, Union general Gordon Granger read the Emancipation
Proclamation (originally issued by [Republican President] Abraham Lincoln in 1863) in Galveston, thus belatedly bringing about the freeing of 250,000 slaves in Texas.
“The event, now celebrated as ‘Juneteenth,’ eventually gave rise to
an annual day of thanksgiving ceremonies, public entertainment, picnics,
and family reunions. Some communities have set aside land, known as
Emancipation Parks, for celebrations on Juneteenth.
“In 1979 Governor William P. Clements [the first Republican governor since Reconstruction] signed an act making the day a state holiday. The first state-sponsored Juneteenth celebration took place the next year.”
It’s worth adding that Lincoln didn’t have the power to free the slaves. That required legislation and, eventually, a Constitutional amendment. But the South’s defeat in the war made the legalities moot and slavery ended with the collapse of the Confederacy and the surrender of its armies.
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What, you might ask, is a Lincoln shrine doing in Redlands, California? It was the work, in 1932, of a family of philanthropists memorializing their son who had died of wounds suffered in World War I, as well as Lincoln. The Great Emancipator and, had he lived, probably the Great Conciliator, was murdered 143 years ago Monday, and died the next morning. Lest we forget.
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It’s always seemed to me–though you will get plenty of argument about it from the liberal multicults– that the slaveowners among the Founders knew what they were doing when they voted for a Declaration of Independence declaring that "all men are created equal." The lawyers among them, in particular, knew that slavery would be abolished sooner or later and that women (since they meant "men" in an inclusive sense) would win rights that they then didn’t have.
The notion belies the currently-popular idea that the nation was racist and sexist from the start, which Mackubin Owens notes is abetted by such otherwise harmless examples of PC as the New Jersey Legislature’s recent apology for slavery. Not that even conservatives, such as the recent Lincoln bashers, don’t like a good argument about such things now and then.
Via No Left Turns
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