@Daniel86Cycles@_sn_n the Republican Party of the 21st century. I feel like we're starting to lose track of my main point, which was providing some historical context.
@Daniel86Cycles@_sn_n common sense today. Also, my main argument was just to bring up some clarifications on the executions of the Sioux, mainly how 265 men were spared the rope. This can be easily misinterpreted at face value, not more so than the trend of the Republican Party of the 19th century to
@Daniel86Cycles@_sn_n You're straw-manning my argument; I'm saying that you can't apply the logic of 1862 to the logic of 2026! Stop trying to make comparisons from the 19th century to today, it's like Apples and Oranges. This argument is sliding; let's stay on Lincoln.
@Daniel86Cycles@_sn_n You missed my main point. I'm talking about how Lincoln, in a 19th-century context, a time when Natives were routinely displaced and slaughtered by people, spared the lives of Native Americans, which was very radical for the time.
@Daniel86Cycles@_sn_n The soldiers here are very angry, and we do not know what they will do to us." -Mowis Itewakanhdiota, April 17, 1865. Lincoln wasn’t the Indian scalper some people seem to believe; he was fairly merciful considering the circumstances.
@Daniel86Cycles@_sn_n "My friend Elder Riggs: We hear a rumor that the president is killed. And we are very sad, because we look upon him as our father, and we do not know what will become of us. We are in great fear, and we wish you would write and tell us if it is true, and what will be done with us