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Make the Confederacy's Defeat a National Holiday (Hurl)
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| April 5, 2015
| Brian Beutler
Posted on 04/06/2015 11:47:50 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: rockrr
The racist moniker sticks to everyone in the mid 19th century evenly; with very few exception. Lincoln NOT being one of the exceptions.
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posted on
04/08/2015 6:45:07 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: DoodleDawg; RFEngineer
Starting with the civil war, the primacy of the federal government over powers reserved for the states was cemented. You asked: For example?
Your comment says a lot about the sorry state of the republic. It is depressing that Freeper would ask such a question question.....
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posted on
04/08/2015 6:49:41 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Your comment says a lot about the sorry state of the republic. It is depressing that Freeper would ask such a question question..... But it's not surprising that nobody can answer it.
To: DoodleDawg
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.--Madison
What Madison said is a sick joke now.
To start your education first realize at the beginning the states had more power than the Federal. Now everything is upside down.
Read everything you can about the anti-federalists
It is well worth your time, nobody is going to educate you, you have to do it yourself.
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posted on
04/08/2015 7:29:44 AM PDT
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central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Do you have any conception of how stupid you sound? That’s EXACTLY the same argument that the left is handing out right now. You haven’t gone leftist on us have you?!
The truth is that racial attitudes in the mid-1800’s weren’t very charitable towards blacks. Most saw them as inferior; many saw them as sub-human. Lincoln was mainstream in his attitudes towards blacks and definitely not hidebound.
To call him “racist” - as in holding an opinion more extreme than the mainstream thinking of the times is simply untrue.
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posted on
04/08/2015 8:58:07 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: rockrr
I think we agree about this.
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posted on
04/08/2015 9:02:14 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Vermont Lt
Lincoln freed the slaves.
Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.
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posted on
04/08/2015 11:42:16 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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