A Bullet Through America’s Heart: Lincoln’s Assassination, April 14, 1865
Today, on April 14, 1865, Good Friday of that year, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., by the crazed Confederate sympathizer, racist, and traitor John Wilkes Booth. It was a tragedy that permanently altered history and deeply harmed America, as there could hardly have been a worse replacement for the unifying, wise, charitable, and pro-civil rights Lincoln than his racist, divisive, and irascible VP, Andrew Johnson.
It is significant that Lincoln’s murderer, Booth, shot Lincoln after hearing Lincoln express his support for full civil rights for black Americans in a speech. The Democrats started the Civil War because of Republican Lincoln’s election, and though Lincoln envisioned a progress in civil rights at the end of the war that would benefit both white and black Americans, some white men wanted no progress at all. The actor Booth was one.
“[Indiana State Museum] Lincoln’s support for Black rights proved fatal
Soon after the war ended, Lincoln gave a speech that argued for Black men and veterans to have the right to vote. John Wilkes Booth was in the audience. Enraged that Lincoln supported Black citizenship, Booth vowed, ‘That is the last speech he will ever make.’ Booth shot Lincoln three days later.”
As Jesus Christ was crucified on Good Friday because of sin, Abraham Lincoln was murdered on Good Friday 1865 because of the sins of slavery and racism. Was Lincoln a saint or savior? No. The only perfect man in history was the God-man Jesus. But when Lincoln died, the man who called former slave Frederick Douglass his “friend” and who was willing to pay the ultimate price for supporting civil rights was a long way from the man who had struggled all his life to overcome racism and other faults. Lincoln was not only a good man but a great man.
And yet, there were those who definitely saw in him God’s chosen instrument. When Lincoln arrived at the recently captured Confederate capital of Richmond for a visit mere days before his assassination, newly freed slaves fell to their knees or greeted him as “the great messiah!” In his own imperfect way, Lincoln had saved millions of men, women, and children. To us, it might seem exaggerative to call Lincoln a “messiah.” But to the former slaves in Richmond, who had spent their whole lives caught in a hopeless position of enforced servitude, prejudice, and abuse, the “Great Emancipator” seemed like a messenger straight from God.
When John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, he sent a bullet straight through the heart of America. America did not die, but the wound never fully healed; it was merely concealed or denied. To this day, we live in a country created not by those who won the Civil War, but by those who lost the Civil War (the radical Democrats). John Wilkes Booth and Robert E. Lee would have despised Antifa and BLM, yet the latter are the former’s political inheritors, only the newest manifestation of the Democrat race-obsession and anti-American hatred that has been festering in our nation for over a hundred years.
The Democrat Party set out to destroy America and blind its citizens to everything but skin color, and though Lincoln stopped them once, they are perilously close to achieving their objective at last. It is tragic that even many conservatives now are willfully misunderstanding the problem, ignoring Confederate/Democrat war crimes and terrorism from the past, whitewashing the very men who tried to destroy America from within, the men who perpetuated our worst political and societal sins for new generations. Our current crisis can be traced back to the Civil War and even before. The Constitution puts no race- or sex-based conditions on rights and liberties, but the Democrats have spent two centuries trying to fool Americans into believing that it does, to destroy and remake this great nation in their own corrupt image.
But we have a choice now. Will we allow Booth to have the final triumph? Or will we take up the task for which Lincoln was willing to die, the unity and liberty of America, and vow, as Lincoln famously put it, that “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”