Talk:John Wilkes Booth/@comment-38.114.202.226-20140513154322/@comment-38.114.202.226-20140515011717

It was said that “Lincoln did in fact believe in the equal rights of all human beings”. Are women human beings? Lincoln did not see fit to give women the vote, it wasn’t politically advantages for him. For decades women remained second class citizens.

It was also said that “He was provisioning FEDERAL forts, and only with foods. NO troops or weapons, so how was that "causing" the firing?”

A month after Lincoln took office he notified the Department of the Navy that he was going to resupply Fort Sumter. Lincoln knew that the Navy Department was full of southern sympathizers and they would inform the South. He also knew that the fort was surrounded by massive fortifications that could easily prevent its resupply. Lincoln had no intention to resupply the fort, it was a ruse to get the South to fire the first shot and be put in the wrong.

Lincoln ordered four warships (Powhatan, Harriet Lane, Pawnee, and Pocahontas) with 715 officers and men with an aggregate of thirty-eight heavy guns to be sent to Fort Sumter. He also sent a large transport steamer with two hundred infantry soldiers and boats loaded with supplies. Lincoln also sent three seagoing tugs to pull the heavy-laden supply boats. Lincoln ordered the captains to assemble ten miles from the fort. The South could see this massive congregating armada and decided to open fire on Fort Sumter.

Lincoln’s plan was a success, the war was started. That bastard Lincoln deliberately started a war that cost over half-a-million lives.