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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Good morning Professor.

I didn’t locate the “treasonous sentiment,” part.

Could you expound on the treasonous sentiment?

Thanks

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4 posted on 04/10/2024 8:35:40 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: M Kehoe

Excerpt of speech of Rep. Alexander Long (D-OH), April 8, 1864.

“I believe now that there are but two alternatives, and these are, either an acknowledgment of the independence of the South as an independent nation, or their complete subjugation and extermination as a people, and of these alternatives I prefer the former... I do not believe there can be any prosecution of the war against a sovereign State under the Constitution, and I do not believe that a war so carried on can be prosecuted so as to render it proper, justifiable, or expedient. An unconstitutional war can only be carried on in an unconstitutional manner, and to prosecute it further under the idea of the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Stevens], as a war waged against the Confederate States as an independent nation, for the purpose of conquest and subjugation, as he proposes, and the Administration is in truth and in fact doing, I am equally opposed.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Long


5 posted on 04/10/2024 8:53:18 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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