Posted on 05/04/2018 6:42:25 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
Leading elements of Union Major General George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac cross the Rapidan River. With a few hours they would clash with General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the Battle of the Wilderness. Lieutenant General Grant's Overland Campaign had begun.
“Did you or did you not state here a few months ago that you had Aspergers?”
This sounds like a personal attack; something we have all agreed is wrong.
Hey, he bought it up, not me. And personal attacks? Please. I’ve been called ever name in the book here. “Yankee Lincoln bootlicker’’ even had one of you Rebs threaten to kill me. Grow a pair.
Sounds like an obsession, which is another aspect of mental illness.
And in one war the good guys lost, and in the other, they won.
Try to keep up dear. Every time a state voted to secede, that was another iteration.
11 iterations in total, with Massachusetts threatening to do so back in the earlier part of the 19th century. The world would have probably been a better place had they done so.
Regarding Judicial activism in Massachusetts deliberately misrepresenting the intent of the legislature, I have untwisted things.
The twisted view is that this was done by the people rather than a dictatorial activist court.
Now how did that collection of Witch-Murdering Puritan-descended fanatics legalize homosexual marriage?
But not just the Slave Power. Here's how one fire-eater from Jefferson Davis’ home state styled that part of the U.S. Constitution:
“The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself.”
Note well the words, “fugitive slave clause.”
Well those were not a very friendly things to say.
Didn't the Confederacy say that 13 states had seceded? Not 11?
You think the Nazis were the good guys, huh? Interesting.
“Well no they didn’t (offer to negotiate all issues with the United States in an attempt to preserve the peace) but that is neither here nor there.”
I hesitate to disagree with friends, but in this case I respectfully disagree. The Confederate Congress did make the offer and sent representatives to negotiate all issues; and it is “here nor there.”
Lincoln could not have known for sure his decision would cost 600,000 lives, or more, but he knew his decision to go to war would cost plenty.
The result was the disaster at Appomattox and the federal government we have in the D.C. swamp now. I know many people are happy with the federal government and the way it works. I’m not.
See. This is why people flense the hide off you. You’re an idiot. The Nazis lost and the Confederacy lost. When it came to their views on race and economic exploitation of a certain race they were similar. They were both the ‘’bad guys’’ And they both lost.
Don’t flatter yourself dude.
“Didn’t the Confederacy say that 13 states had seceded? Not 11?”
Kentucky and Missouri were aspirational. They did have representatives in the Confederacy but the states were never completely liberated.
My earlier reference to eleven was another attempt by me to avoid controversy.
But is that what the Confederates did? The only specific in the letter to Lincoln was that they were there to demand recognition from the Administration. Following that there was a vague offer to "agree, treat, consult, and negotiate of and concerning all matters and subjects interesting to both nations..." How do we know that paying for stolen property was interesting to the Confederacy?
No, the Nazis were bad. So was the Illinois dictator.
Aspirational to Davis but not to you? Hence the reference to 11?
My earlier reference to eleven was another attempt by me to avoid controversy.
And accuracy?
Now who's being childish?
I'm not an advocate of playing the Race Card. If you are, here's a quote in American history from a fire-eater from Jefferson Davis’ home state. It captures the thinking of many of the American people at the time of Lincoln's War.
You should always include the quote to support your decision to play the Race Card.
“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races...I, as much as any man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
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