Is Abraham Lincoln considered a tyrant in the US?

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1. >Back home he is considered a tyrant

   Where in the world is this?

2. Lincoln really wasn’t involved in anything relating to the Natives during his term so I’m not sure where that comes from. He was focused almost entirely on the war and emancipation.

3. No, he’s considered one of, if not our best, Presidents. Tell us more about how he’s a tyrant. I’ve never heard this theory.

4. In America, it’s generally only people in a certain political subset of hard-right conservatives who idealize the Confederacy consider Lincoln a tyrant. To most Americans, he’s a figure who stopped the country from being torn apart by a rebellion of slaveholders, and who was one of the chief architects of the emancipation of millions of human beings. He is one of the most universally respected figures in American history, and even in the deep South, is generally respected by African-Americans and most younger people.

   The Sioux, more justifiably, consider him a tyrant for approving the mass hanging of Sioux POWs in Minnesota. There was a rebellion of plains Indians there during the Civil War, because they had pushed off their land by settlers, left to starve, and not given the food they were promised. When the rebellion was defeated, dozens of prisoners of war were hanged in Mankato. Though, in that case, Lincoln actually reduced the number of POWs to be hanged from hundreds (the original plan of the Minnesota settlers) to dozens. Still blood on his hands, of course. Like every American president, he was a tyrant to the indigenous people of this continent.

5. Did Lincoln cause the war? I thought the states that seceded to form their own country in order to keep the institution of slavery caused the war

6. >Is Abraham Lincoln being portrayed as a tyrant in the US? Back home he is considered a tyrant. He clause a war that took tens of thousands of people’s life and kill a lot of native Americans.

   I think it’s important that a Mississippian be here to say: this is fucking unhinged lol Lincoln did not cause the Civil War and he was not a tyrant

7. A *tyrant????* How on Earth could one arrive at that conclusion?

   Edit: Lincoln did NOT cause the Civil War. That statement is just false with little room for debate.

   Additionally, his suspension of habeas corpus and the imposition of de facto martial law was because Washington DC was literally *in the South.* There was a clear and pressing threat to the nation’s capital that made it necessary. He revoked his suspension at the conclusion of the war.

8. >Back home he is considered a tyrant.

   Are you a time traveller from the Confederacy?