Our Best President Not Named George Washington
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
There is an argument to be made that Lincoln’s invasion of the South was premature and that the war could have been avoided. The price in human lives was too high.
Once the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter war was a foregone conclusion. Better for the secessionists if they had argued their cause in Congress for a peaceful separation, either by act of Congress or a Constitutional Convention. There was a fair amount of “let the erring sisters go”initially in the North and they might have been successful. After Sumter it was a matter for the iron dice of war.
I don’t know who was our best President besides .George Washington. Abraham Lincoln, perhaps. Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan rank very high too.
Being President’s Day, and living on the Norther Neck which is the birthplace of Washington and Monroe, I looked up Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abraham’s mother. The Amish had told me that their Peacock Hill Creamery is on property once owned by Nancy’s grandmother’s family. Sure enough orphaned Nancy had lived there with her widowed grandmother in Farnham, Richmond County for a few years. Not too much is known about Nancy except that she married Thomas Lincoln; was the loving mother of Sarah, Abraham and Thomas, jr. Thomas Sr. was illiterate but Nancy was not. She taught Abraham to read and write. At 34 Nancy died of milk sickness, so called from ingesting milk, meat from cows that grazed on white snake root which contains a deadly poison tremetol.
I grew up frequently visiting Nancy Hanks’ grave in southern Indiana. In the last few years, I have learned that she was illegitimate, her mother being a servant in a Virginia landowner’s household, and that landowner was her father. I read that Lincoln suspected his interest in politics came from his unknown grandfather. I do much wonder why no one has examined DNA to find out who Lincoln’s maternal grandfather was.
Sandy O’Seay, If what you say is true why does the South still cry: The South will rise again”?
While Washington refused to be king, Lincoln said: “One person cannot own another person”, even a dependent in the womb.
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