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To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...

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Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

11 posted on 12/08/2017 4:54:42 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

from the piece -- South Carolinian James Tradewell:

"Save the Union if you can.
But rather than have Kansas refused admission under the Lecompton Constitution, let it perish in blood and fire."

Note: "perish in blood and fire", not "withdraw in peaceful, constitutionally valid disunion."

Everyone then understood that secession meant war, nobody pretended otherwise.

13 posted on 12/08/2017 5:35:23 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)

To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...

Continued from December 8 (Reply #11)

Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

24 posted on 12/18/2017 4:54:25 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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