To: Homer_J_Simpson
This gets a “wow.” Legislature dissolved by the Federal military. Things are bad in our country, but we haven’t gone that far...
...yet.
41 posted on
07/04/2016 9:14:41 AM PDT by
henkster
(Don't listen to what people say, watch what they do.)
To: henkster
They picked quite a day for the action - the 80th anniversary of July Fourth, 1776. The rationale for it was that the free-state legislature was “extra-legal,” there being a pro-slavery legislature in place when the Topeka legislature was formed.
42 posted on
07/04/2016 9:48:34 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: henkster
Legislature dissolved by the Federal military. Things are bad in our country, but we haven’t gone that far... I just read in a biography of Jefferson Davis that, as Secretary of War, he reprimanded Sumner for the action. As a cabinet official Davis seems to have done a fairly decent job. Not counting his really juvenile feud with Winfield Scott.
43 posted on
07/12/2016 2:25:07 PM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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