Frederick Douglas:\u00c2\u00a0 We must abolish slavery.<\/p>\n
Abraham Lincoln:\u00c2\u00a0 We must preserve the Union.\u00c2\u00a0 To that end, we must abolish slavery.<\/p>\n
Douglas:\u00c2\u00a0 Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Why not?<\/p>\n
(Lincoln and Douglas fidget their fingers for a minute.)<\/p>\n
Lincoln:\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if the nation will ever\u00c2\u00a0end up with a\u00c2\u00a0negro president.<\/p>\n
Douglas:\u00c2\u00a0 In the year of our lord 2008, maybe?<\/p>\n
Lincoln:\u00c2\u00a0 In the meantime we should probably just ship you all back to Africa.<\/p>\n
Douglas:\u00c2\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n
(Five seconds of awkward silence.)<\/p>\n
I hear you had some debates with Stephen Douglas which were real barn burners.<\/p>\n
Lincoln:\u00c2\u00a0 I tend to think I won, but you know — he ended up in the Senate, so I guess he won.<\/p>\n
Douglas:\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I should challenge him to a Douglas — Douglas debate.<\/p>\n
Lincoln:\u00c2\u00a0 Nah, I think he wouldn’t go for any talk with a negro.<\/p>\n
Douglas:\u00c2\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n
(ten seconds of awkward silence.)<\/p>\n
You know, when you get around to Reconstruction and “Healing the Rift of the Nation”, would you make sure the counter-reaction in the former slave colonies of disenfranchisement by way of ultra violence doesn’t work out?<\/p>\n
Lincoln:\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, that’ll be up to future administrations to sort out after my assassination.\u00c2\u00a0 Andrew Johnson.\u00c2\u00a0 Ulysses Grant.\u00c2\u00a0 Those guys.<\/p>\n
Douglas:\u00c2\u00a0 Johnson sucks.<\/p>\n
Lincoln:\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, pretty much.<\/p>\n
(Various death threats are thrown out from the crowd, but it is difficult to ascertain whether they’re directed to Lincoln, Douglas, or both.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frederick Douglas:\u00c2\u00a0 We must abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln:\u00c2\u00a0 We must preserve the Union.\u00c2\u00a0 To that end, we must abolish slavery. Douglas:\u00c2\u00a0 Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Why not? (Lincoln and Douglas fidget their fingers for a minute.) Lincoln:\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if the nation will ever\u00c2\u00a0end up with a\u00c2\u00a0negro president. Douglas:\u00c2\u00a0 In the year of our lord 2008, maybe? Lincoln:\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}