Talk:John Wilkes Booth/@comment-38.114.202.226-20140513154322/@comment-38.114.202.226-20140514043820

On his inauguration, Lincoln said, “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so…The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts”. The civil War was not started over the single issue of slavery. It was started over money. Lincoln was a causality of war and the people of the Confederate states should consider Booth a hero.

Martin Luther King said that we should judge people by the content of their character. Let’s look at the two men in their early twenties.

Booth—when Booth learned that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant with his child. He made arrangements to provide child support for Kate until her baby was twenty-one. He was a hundred years ahead of his time and a very considerate person.

Lincoln—when Abraham was taking a load of supplies to New Orleans to sale, the pigs on the raft became difficult to handle. Lincoln sewed their eyes shut. A shocking act of animal cruelty. Also on the same trip some counterfeit money was taken in. Instead of taking the loss, Lincoln passed it off to the unsuspecting.



When the two men are compared, Booth is the better man.