Thank you for these Presidential videos! Your channel has been responsible for opening up my world to C-SPAN. Before that I thought C-SPAN was only live video of Congress. Thank you again and I look forward to more videos on your channel.
Notwithstanding all the things Lincoln said that make it appear that he was at best indifferent to the plight of people of Sub-Saharan African descent, I not only believe that he wanted to see people of African descent be free, I believe that he said the things that he had to say under the circumstances to free people of Sub-Saharan African descent. Unless you have been the leader of a nation under the unimaginable circumstances that Lincoln was in, you would find it difficult to understand what Lincoln had to do. Lincoln provides daring insight into his quandary in the reply he sent to Horace Greeley's open letter to him: NEW YORK, August 19, 1862 PRESIDENT LINCOLN' RESPONSE President Abraham Lincoln's response is one of his most famous letters. When Lincoln wrote this letter, he was already at work on the Emancipation Proclamation , but as he states clearly in his reponse, his first concern was the Union. Lincoln sent his response to the New York Times for publication rather than to Greeley's New York Tribune. The Times was a strong supporter of Lincoln's policies, whereas Greeley's Tribune had become something of a gadfly to Lincoln's administration. Executive Mansion, Washington, August 22, 1862. Hon. Horace Greeley: Dear Sir. I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptible [sic] in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I “seem to be pursuing” as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.” If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I HAVE HERE STATED MY PURPOSE ACCORDING TO MY VIEW OF OFFICIAL DUTY; AND I INTEND NO MODIFICATION OF MY OFT-EXPRESSED PERSONAL WISH THAT ALL MEN EVERYWHERE COULD BE FREE. Yours, A. Lincoln BEFORE LINCOLN COULD FREE ANYONE, HE FIRST HAD TO WIN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, THEN HE HAD TO WIN THE WAR TO SAVE THE NATION. I AM CERTAIN THAT ALL OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPLAINED IF LINCOLN HAD LIVED. AFTER LINCOLN WAS MURDERED, PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT HAD SOME FREEDOM, YET MANY PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT SEEM TO HATE HIM; NEVERTHELESS, THEY SEEM TO LOVE OBAMA WHO HAS LEFT AFRICAN AMERICANS WORSE OFF. ALSO, I HAVE NOTICED THAT MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE SO INDIFFERENT TO THE MURDER OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR THAT THEY CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT MURDERED HIM.
The caller at 47 minutes seems unaware that Lincoln & Seward did offer to purchase the freedom of all slaves in any state that would agree to abolish gradually. The secessionist aristocracy rejected this offer because they were not interested in union without slavery; and to remain in the union would mean abolition would come eventually as more and more states were added where slavery was not compatible with the local economies, diluting the slavemaster control of the legislature.
That point is not clear. It has been debated many but in 1868 the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. The south (sic) fired the first shot. A mistake. CHeck the balance of Congress, I think they were in good shape to maneuver politically but they became arrogant. The uncivil war ,from Lincoln perspective, was not about slaves freedom. Before Gzettysburgh if the war could have ended with the south continuing slavery, he would have accepted as long as the Union remained intact. Gettysburg and the RAdicals changed everything.
You can blame it on the presidents preceding the civil war. Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan especially didn’t do anything to ease tensions around slavery. Also, Lincoln’a intentions were not to end slavery, it was only used as a tactic against the rebelling states to cripple their labor force
Wow, a James Buchanan H.S. in Penn. The only school I have ever known to bear Buchanan's name was that in Brooklyn with the famous teacher Gabe Kotter and his Sweathogs.
Reisner is so desperate to defend Buchanan that he absurdly disparages Lincoln at 1:06:15. Lincoln was an abolitionist, that was the entire basis of his party and campaign. He was aware, as the South was, that by preventing slavery in the territories & incoming States that the Slave states would become hopelessly out numbered in the legislature, bringing about slavery’s demise eventually and inevitably. That’s why the slave states were fighting so hard about the territories where slavery did not even fit into the economies and physical conditions of the land. The abolitionist party called Republicans the time were playing a long game, they were not attempting to immediately emancipate all slaves everywhere The abolitionist party called Republicans the time were playing a long game, they were not attempting to immediately emancipate all slaves everywhere because that did not appear to be possible and to call for such would cause them to be rejected at the polls. Seward lost the nomination to Lincoln in large part because Seward was viewed as overly conciliatory, and Lincoln as sticking closely to abolition. The caller who is dismissed just before this exchange and the video was correct that if Buchanan administration directly armed the south, their secretary of war transferred munitions from the north into southern armories on the eve of secession, an act of treason. Sherman describes these events in his memoirs in the first person, as he was working add a military academy in the south at the time of these transfers, and quit out of loyalty to the union
After Andrew Jackson, it became fashionable for candidates to portray themselves as poor and born in a log cabin even though many were not. Buchanan was lame and a duck. Period!
Priceless
I'm probably the only person in the world who actually likes & appreciates Buchanan's presidency.
Thanks for posting these I have had hours of enjoyment.
The beaver tail on that interviewer’s lip is stunning.
I love this series. I’ve a History degree 📜 and have loved history since I was a very young boy.
Why do you love him? How can anyone love him? Even the Democrats refused to nominate him for a second term.
Odd flex
This is so cool. Back in the rational period of US. Hearing all these callers and the quality of this tv... Makes one nostalgic.
He was a oral and anal loving homosexual 🤣
Magnificent Series
Fascinating historical backstory!
Cruzer
Thank you for these Presidential videos! Your channel has been responsible for opening up my world to C-SPAN. Before that I thought C-SPAN was only live video of Congress.
Thank you again and I look forward to more videos on your channel.
Thank you for this video!
Absolutely!
She was fired later that day after the cameras left over that broken glass earlier
Anyone know the song? 1:10
I wish they wouldn't play the introduction two or three times. Once is sufficient. I'd like to hear the professors.
C-Span is a national treasure!
Notwithstanding all the things Lincoln said that make it appear that he was at best indifferent to the plight of people of Sub-Saharan African descent, I not only believe that he wanted to see people of African descent be free, I believe that he said the things that he had to say under the circumstances to free people of Sub-Saharan African descent.
Unless you have been the leader of a nation under the unimaginable circumstances that Lincoln was in, you would find it difficult to understand what Lincoln had to do. Lincoln provides daring insight into his quandary in the reply he sent to Horace Greeley's open letter to him:
NEW YORK, August 19, 1862
PRESIDENT LINCOLN' RESPONSE
President Abraham Lincoln's response is one of his most famous letters. When Lincoln wrote this letter, he was already at work on the Emancipation Proclamation , but as he states clearly in his reponse, his first concern was the Union. Lincoln sent his response to the New York Times for publication rather than to Greeley's New York Tribune. The Times was a strong supporter of Lincoln's policies, whereas Greeley's Tribune had become something of a gadfly to Lincoln's administration.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, August 22, 1862.
Hon. Horace Greeley:
Dear Sir.
I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptible [sic] in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.
As to the policy I “seem to be pursuing” as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.” If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
I HAVE HERE STATED MY PURPOSE ACCORDING TO MY VIEW OF OFFICIAL DUTY; AND I INTEND NO MODIFICATION OF MY OFT-EXPRESSED PERSONAL WISH THAT ALL MEN EVERYWHERE COULD BE FREE.
Yours,
A. Lincoln
BEFORE LINCOLN COULD FREE ANYONE, HE FIRST HAD TO WIN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, THEN HE HAD TO WIN THE WAR TO SAVE THE NATION.
I AM CERTAIN THAT ALL OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPLAINED IF LINCOLN HAD LIVED.
AFTER LINCOLN WAS MURDERED, PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT HAD SOME FREEDOM, YET MANY PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT SEEM TO HATE HIM; NEVERTHELESS, THEY SEEM TO LOVE OBAMA WHO HAS LEFT AFRICAN AMERICANS WORSE OFF. ALSO, I HAVE NOTICED THAT MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE SO INDIFFERENT TO THE MURDER OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR THAT THEY CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT MURDERED HIM.
The caller at 47 minutes seems unaware that Lincoln & Seward did offer to purchase the freedom of all slaves in any state that would agree to abolish gradually. The secessionist aristocracy rejected this offer because they were not interested in union without slavery; and to remain in the union would mean abolition would come eventually as more and more states were added where slavery was not compatible with the local economies, diluting the slavemaster control of the legislature.
If the Southern states seceded then slavery would've eventually been abolished. The civil war was stupid and unnecessary.
The problem with
Buchanan was he did nothing when then south took over arsenals and other federal facilities
You can't blame the civil war on Buchanan. The Southern states had a constitutional right to secede. Lincoln started the civil war.
That point is not clear. It has been debated many but in 1868 the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. The south (sic) fired the first shot. A mistake. CHeck the balance of Congress, I think they were in good shape to maneuver politically but they became arrogant. The uncivil war ,from Lincoln perspective, was not about slaves freedom. Before Gzettysburgh if the war could have ended with the south continuing slavery, he would have accepted as long as the Union remained intact. Gettysburg and the RAdicals changed everything.
You can blame it on the presidents preceding the civil war. Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan especially didn’t do anything to ease tensions around slavery. Also, Lincoln’a intentions were not to end slavery, it was only used as a tactic against the rebelling states to cripple their labor force
John Tyler's grandson just passed away.
He still has another surviving grandson.
1:31:45 Noooooooooooo hahaha fail!!!
😁😁😁😁
About sums up his presidency.
Lincoln's Inaguration was in 1861
Im noticing from people's comments that these videos are somewhat flawed when it comes to dates and various little details.
theSuperMetroid but overall they're good
Wow, a James Buchanan H.S. in Penn. The only school I have ever known to bear Buchanan's name was that in Brooklyn with the famous teacher Gabe Kotter and his Sweathogs.
He is the President that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania gave and they can't get rid of him.
He was my ancestor :(
Im so sorry :(
He’s basically everyone’s ancestor no matter where you’re from cause every since we’re all related to each other.
Wasn't he gay?
@@chrisreynolds6391 Very.
But he never married
Buchanan looks like a turnip.
He looks creepy too in some of his photos.
1:31:46
Reisner is so desperate to defend Buchanan that he absurdly disparages Lincoln at 1:06:15. Lincoln was an abolitionist, that was the entire basis of his party and campaign. He was aware, as the South was, that by preventing slavery in the territories & incoming States that the Slave states would become hopelessly out numbered in the legislature, bringing about slavery’s demise eventually and inevitably. That’s why the slave states were fighting so hard about the territories where slavery did not even fit into the economies and physical conditions of the land. The abolitionist party called Republicans the time were playing a long game, they were not attempting to immediately emancipate all slaves everywhere The abolitionist party called Republicans the time were playing a long game, they were not attempting to immediately emancipate all slaves everywhere because that did not appear to be possible and to call for such would cause them to be rejected at the polls. Seward lost the nomination to Lincoln in large part because Seward was viewed as overly conciliatory, and Lincoln as sticking closely to abolition.
The caller who is dismissed just before this exchange and the video was correct that if Buchanan administration directly armed the south, their secretary of war transferred munitions from the north into southern armories on the eve of secession, an act of treason. Sherman describes these events in his memoirs in the first person, as he was working add a military academy in the south at the time of these transfers, and quit out of loyalty to the union
He didn't deny Lincoln was an abolitionist.
Why does that guy close his eyes when he speaks?
2:16:30
Poor Carl Risner trying to defend the 1st or 2nd (at that time) worst president.
After Andrew Jackson, it became fashionable for candidates to portray themselves as poor and born in a log cabin even though many were not. Buchanan was lame and a duck. Period!
Lol GAY PRESIDENT
Nobody made a big deal about it