Next time you hear someone praise Abe Lincoln, bring out this article….(Jan. 6, 2014)

6 January 2014 at 11:22 am

Next time you hear someone praise Abe Lincoln, bring out this article….

“Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain Bailey, and Lieutenant Olin, and lately sitting in Minnesota, you cause to be executed on Friday the nineteenth day of December, instant, the following names, to wit [39 names listed by case number of record: cases 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19, 22, 24, 35, 67, 68, 69, 70, 96, 115, 121, 138, 155, 170, 175, 178, 210, 225, 254, 264, 279, 318, 327, 333, 342, 359, 373, 377, 382, 383].

The other condemned prisoners you will hold subject to further orders, taking care that they neither escape, nor are subjected to any unlawful violence.

Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States”

On December 6 (1862) President Lincoln notified Sibley that he should “cause to be executed” thirty-nine of the 303 convicted Santees, Execution date was the 26th of December. At the last minute, one Indian was given a reprieve. About ten o’clock the thirty-eight condemned men were marched from the prison to the scaffold. They sang the Sioux death song until soldiers pulled white caps over their heads and placed nooses around their necks. At a signal from an army officer, the control rope was cut and thirty-eight Santee Sioux dangled lifeless in the air.

A spectator boasted that this was “America’s greatest public execution.”

Read more…..
http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/hanging.html

• joe9014.1

  6 January 2014 at 11:26 am

  With god on their side.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
• Molly14.2

  6 January 2014 at 11:46 pm

  … and his views on intermarriage.

  … and his signing of the execution order for the largest mass execution in the US with the Dakota 38.

  Can’t remember who posted up Wall of Films but Dakota 38 was one of them.

  Watched it, and it led to an interesting discussion about whether it is still reasonable to celebrate the good that someone unintentionally did – and attribute it to their actions.

  And vice versa – for example, the emancipation law led to the creation of corporations and their use of the rights entailed within to create legal entities with the same rights as humans. The Corporation is another film that outlines that process.

  A belated thank you to whoever posted that link originally…
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