Post by Jaga on Apr 29, 2016 21:39:51 GMT -7
Guys, check the website. I posted article about Lincoln versus January Uprising in Poland in 1963. Martin Nowak did the analysis. Unfortunately since North was supported by Russia, Lincoln and Northerners were nor friendly towards Polish independence.
Here are the fragments:
www.polishsite.us/index.php/history-and-people/history-16th-18th/514-lincoln-ignored-poles-feted-the-tsar.html
In the North, newspapers praised the czar for his reforms, and when the 1863 rising began, they mostly criticized the Poles, calling their revolution a blunder without chance of success, and sometimes citing the Poles as the equals of the Southern Confederate traitors. Whereas in the 1830s the Poles were gallant freedom fighters, they were now seen as troublemakers wanting to break apart the Russian union, just as the Confederates sought the tearing up of the American union. American unionists did not support secession of Poland from Russia, lest they be judged hypocrites for opposing American southern secession. So the Poles were abandoned in the process.
In the South, President Lincoln was likened to Czar Alexander. Just as the czar was oppressing and attacking the freedom loving Poles wanting to establish independence and self-rule, so was “Czar Abraham” drawing the sword against the Southerners for seeking their own country.
Here are the fragments:
www.polishsite.us/index.php/history-and-people/history-16th-18th/514-lincoln-ignored-poles-feted-the-tsar.html
In the North, newspapers praised the czar for his reforms, and when the 1863 rising began, they mostly criticized the Poles, calling their revolution a blunder without chance of success, and sometimes citing the Poles as the equals of the Southern Confederate traitors. Whereas in the 1830s the Poles were gallant freedom fighters, they were now seen as troublemakers wanting to break apart the Russian union, just as the Confederates sought the tearing up of the American union. American unionists did not support secession of Poland from Russia, lest they be judged hypocrites for opposing American southern secession. So the Poles were abandoned in the process.
In the South, President Lincoln was likened to Czar Alexander. Just as the czar was oppressing and attacking the freedom loving Poles wanting to establish independence and self-rule, so was “Czar Abraham” drawing the sword against the Southerners for seeking their own country.