Bush as Lincoln? 

Bush as Lincoln?

Er, no.

[blockquote]I am now through the whole of the President's evidence; and it is a singular fact, that if any one should declare the President sent the army into the midst of a settlement of Mexican people, who had never submitted, by consent or by force to the authority of Texas or of the United States, and that there, and thereby, the first blood of the war was shed, there is not one word in all the President has said, would either admit or deny the declaration. This strange omission, it does seem to me, could not have occurred but by design....I have sometimes seen a good lawyer, struggling for his client's neck, in a desparate case, employing every artifice to work round, befog,and cover up, with many words, some point arising in the case, which he dared not admit, and yet could not deny.[/blockquote]

[blockquote][If the President won't answer whether bloodshed began on U.S. soil, on uninhabited territory, or on territory whose people had submitted to the jurisdiction of Texas] I shall be fully convinced, of what I more than suspect already, that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong.... That originally having some strong motive--what, I will not stop now to give my opinion concerning--to involve the two countries in a war, and trusting to escape scrutiny, by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood....he now finds himself, he knows not where.[/blockquote]

....Again, it is a singular omission in this message, that it, no where intimates when the President expects the war to terminate.

Before proceeding, let me say I think I have no prejudice against the Southern people. They are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not now exist amongst them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up. This I believe of the masses north and south....