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To: Twodees
I agree.

Get Otto Scott's SECRET SIX if you don't already have it.
66 posted on 08/20/2002 11:36:57 AM PDT by one2many
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To: one2many
Yes, I have a copy of that one. Scott doesn't quote sopme of the more inflammatory things the radicals said about the South and Southerners. I have noticed that when Wlat the Imbiber casts about for a description of Brooks' caning of Sumner, he seizes upon Theodore Parker's hassayampa account of the caning which substitutes "a lead loaded club" for Brooks' hollow gutta-percha walking stick, and has Brooks creeping around behind the pussyboy Sumner to spring on him. Parker was a liar and a coward himself who fled to Italy once John Brown was arrested, but his accont fo the caning is what GOP historians hold up as the gospel. Gerrit Smith feigned insanity and had himself commited to an asylum, while Freddy Douglass fled to England after admitting that he was a coward himself.

Anyone who reads the words of the radicals themselves would have to be Clintonesque marxists not to be disgusted by them. Those lunatics are still considered early saints of the GOP. Sumner, if he were still a republican in the Senate would make Jumpin Jimmy Jeffords look like a conservative by comparison and still, the republicans worship his memory.

74 posted on 08/20/2002 1:48:29 PM PDT by Twodees
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