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Posted on 09/01/2016 4:54:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
It’s funny to think of Lincoln and Seward as big fans of the plays ... although plenty of more recent Presidents have really enjoyed movies!
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posted on
09/25/2016 6:13:10 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from September 25 (reply #38).
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, Abridged by Thomas J. Pressly
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posted on
09/27/2016 4:45:34 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
He sure damns the opera with faint praise ... or do I mean praises it with faint damns.
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posted on
09/27/2016 8:36:37 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson; henkster; Tax-chick
I understand why Strong and other Republican leaders would think the fire-eaters would climb down off the ledge (to mix metaphors) if a Republican were elected President. After all, there was no Republican proposal actually to abolish slavery. All that might have happened is the admission of Kansas as a free state and probable restoration of the Missouri Compromise.
To: colorado tanker
The problem with that assumption is it doesn’t recognize the southern fear of a northern Senate majority, which they saw as fatal to their cause, in the long run. They saw admission of Kansas as a free state as the beginning of the end of their way of life. You’re right that many Republicans probably miscalculated on that score.
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09/27/2016 4:26:33 PM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Yes, I think that long game was on the mind of the more sophisticated fire-eaters. There's an awful lot of land west of Missouri and Texas that one day would be free states. Once free-soilers would have 2/3 of the Senate, they could amend the Constitution to abolish slavery.
But it was a pipe-dream to think Kansas or points west were suitable for plantation agriculture and slave labor. By 1861, slavery was illegal in almost all European colonies and throughout Latin America except for Brazil. They were on the wrong side of history and geography.
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from September 27 (reply #42).
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, Abridged by Thomas J. Pressly
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posted on
09/30/2016 5:07:13 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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