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The nation of "Canada" was invented to intimidate Lincoln because he looked weak
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Date: January 6th, 2025 8:04 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK In 1864, Lincoln looked like a bitch. Canada noticed.
Here's the thing though, Lincoln had been threatening to INVADE Canada and CONQUER it. Yeah it tells you that right up front at the beginning. No explanation!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Conference,_1864
If the truth were known, Canadians would vomit uncontrollably. Lincoln KNEW. He was ready to call flame on the whole operation. The response up north was for these literal "provinces" (they were literally called that, think about it) to say "we're going to form a big union at the same time yours falls apart, except ours will be fake and people will eat it, and it will last forever and there will be no civil war, haha" |
Date: January 6th, 2025 8:10 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK "Despite the official stance, the majority of Canadian and Maritime newspapers sympathized with the South, not because they supported slavery, but because they saw the Confederacy as a small power defying a distant, larger one that was not protecting its interests. Many Canadians and Maritimers opposed Lincoln because he said the war was not about freeing slaves but was about reuniting his country or, as he phrased it, preserving the union."
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/american-civil-war |
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Date: January 6th, 2025 8:13 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Initial reaction on both sides of the Atlantic was strong. The United States, still smarting from the defeat at Bull Run during the summer, publicly celebrated this turn of events as a victory against the Confederacy and a blow to Confederate diplomacy. The British, on the other hand, strongly protested Wilkes’s action as illegal and a violation of their neutrality and demanded the release of the captive Confederate envoys as well as a formal apology. Although British officials continued to advocate a policy of neutrality, they did order troops to Canada and additional ships to the Western Atlantic.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1861-1865/trent-affair |
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Date: January 6th, 2025 8:14 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Look at that big flex by "Canada.":
The Lincoln administration understood that it would be unwise to risk a possible armed conflict and perpetuate bad relations with a foreign power while it was prosecuting a war against the Confederacy and moved to smooth things over through diplomatic negotiations. Charles Francis Adams, the U.S. Minister to Great Britain assured the British that the United States did not want a war and advised President Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward that they should conform to some of the British demands.
On December 26, 1861, Seward presented an official note summarizing the Lincoln administration’s position to Lord Lyons, the British Minister to the United States. Seward defended Wilkes’ action, although he conceded that Wilkes had erred by not seizing the Trent and letting a court affirm the legality of taking contraband prisoners. Nevertheless, Seward agreed to release the prisoners.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1861-1865/trent-affair |