Lincoln - a movie that will move you to tears

I had the opportunity to watch the movie 'Lincoln' and I must say that this movie is a masterpiece - it gives life to the legendary president Abraham Lincoln, the man who saved the Union. The cinematography is amazing, and the actors play their part to near perfection. This movie turns out to be the best historical movie, the best movie about a former US president, in my opinion, because of Daniel Day-Blake; a British actor who plays Lincoln in this incredible movie. 

The movie attempts to draw a contrast between modern Republican and the Republican party of Abraham Lincoln, and sometimes taking jabs at the Southern states (base of today's Republican part) for their war against the freedom of black Americans. Off course, Holly Wood productions will always have that left leaning tendency, but I am sure the director - Steven Spielberg - did himself a world of good by showing the Democrats (in Congress) vehement opposition to the 13th Amendment which brought about the "emancipation of colored" people. The Democrats in Congress, in this movie, wanted to end the war by a ceasefire negotiation in an attempt to bypass the vote on the 13th Amendment citing Negros are inferior to whites: 

Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. (147 Years Ago this year - 2012)

The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress submitting the proposed amendment to the state legislatures. The necessary number of states ratified it by December 6, 1865. The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Nonetheless, the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation. Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery.

The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress. Although the Senate passed it in April 1864, the House did not. At that point, Lincoln took an active role to ensure passage through congress. He insisted that passage of the 13th amendment be added to the Republican Party platform for the upcoming Presidential elections. His efforts met with success when the House passed the bill in January 1865 with a vote of 119–56.

With the adoption of the 13th amendment, the United States found a final constitutional solution to the issue of slavery. The 13th amendment, along with the 14th and 15th, is one of the trio of Civil War amendments that greatly expanded the civil rights of Americans.
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But politics aside, I came out of the movie with a renewed feeling and a sense of pride knowing that it was a Republican president that freed the Slaves and reunited the Confederacy and the Union to one country that survived to this very day, and off course contrary to the reconstructed liberal history taught in school today which portrays Republicans as racist bigots of the South who hate black people. 
This is a must see movie.