[Peace-discuss] other images for the 4th

[Karen Medina]

AWARE also needs images of people who shaped Lincoln's views.
Examples are:

  ** Placards remembering people who shaped Lincoln's views
       or from Lincoln's time who were doing things we'd like to honor.

       Frederick Douglass
           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

           "I would unite with anybody to do right
            and with nobody to do wrong."

           Abolitionist and supporter of women's right to vote,
           famous publisher and orator,
           believed that the Constitution could
               and should be used to fight slavery
           Can we say something about Douglass' influence on Lincoln?

       Charles Sumner
           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner
           A leader of the antislavery forces, US Senator,
           one of the Radical Republicans, a champion of black rights
           before and after the Civil War

       Elijah Lovejoy
           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_P._Lovejoy
           Abolitionist journalist and publisher, from Alton, Illinois,
           from Alton, Illinois.  Pro-slavery mobs several times
           destroyed his newspaper, and in 1837 killed him.  He was 34.
           "First casualty of the Civil War" or
           "A martyr on the altar of American Liberty"
                (I'm not suggesting we use the latter, but
                 http://www.altonweb.com/history/lovejoy/
                does :)

       Lysander Spooner
           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
           lawyer, "individualist anarchist",
           he was both an abolitionist and an opponent of the Civil War
           though he had supported guerrilla actions against slaveholders
            by slaves and sympathizers in the South.   Criticized the
           Republicans of the time, arguing that they were not
           aiming to end slavery but to preserve the Union by force and to
           support the business interests behind that union.

           A gem from the Wikipedia article:
           "He argued that the right of states to secede derives from
           the natural right of slaves to be free.  This argument was
           unpopular in both the North and the South after the war began,
           as it conflicted with the official position of both governments."