[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 25 (reply #38).

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[Tax-chick]

He sure damns the opera with faint praise ... or do I mean praises it with faint damns.

[colorado tanker]

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.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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