AN ABORTION, APE, BABOON, BUFFOON, MONSTER, SATYR, NEGRO, MULATTO, AND DAMNED IDIOT
While he held the highest office in the land, a crude Georgian to rouse the public to war advocated to,"'Sprinkle blood in their faces!"
This great man whom thoughtless torch carrying mobs cursed is Abraham Lincoln. Even before the war between the North and the South he tried to abolish slavery. If the United States Congress had voted to stop the trade of human bondage, more than 75,000 human lives and a million horses could have been saved and the Earth, too, from being scorched and burned. Parliament in England abolished slavery in the 1830s without having the scourge of a civil war.
"The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious."–The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, Yale University Pressm 1915
Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)