Let's forget for a second that Lincoln was assassinated. After all, John Wilkes Booth, for all his shortcomings, was not a member of the media. Let's talk about how Lincoln was treated by people other than Booth.
Start with the fact that he wasn't even on the ballot in the South.
Start with the fact that he wasn't even on the ballot in the South.
And never campaigned there. He'd never make it out of the South alive if he did. Want to know what the Southern media said about him? How about this: if Lincoln is elected, wrote The New York Herald, the result will be "African amalgamation with your fair sons or daughters..."
The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Examiner called him "a relentless dogged free-soil border ruffian, a vulgar mobocrat and Southern hater, an illiterate partisan possessed only of his inveterate hatred of slavery and his predilections of negro equality."
A Georgia newspaper wrote: "Let the consequences be what they may - whether the Potomac is crimsoned in human gore, and Pennsylvania Ave is paved ten fathoms deep in mangled bodies, the South will never submit to such humiliation and degradation as the inauguration of Lincoln."
The New Orleans Crescent raged that "every vote cast for Lincoln is a deliberate, cold-blooded insult and outrage to Southern honor."
So, I guess, Trump has it real tough, what with @Yamiche and others asking him questions that don't begin with "Oh all-knowing Wise One." But as far as being treated worse than Lincoln? Bruh, you aren't even treated worse than any president who served in the 2010s.
