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To: GOPcapitalist
What about the famous letter to Greeley in August, 1862? Where are the references to "the policy I seem to be pursuing"? They involve slavery, not tariffs.

Lincoln already had his tariffs at that time. Try again, Walt.

The idea we were discussing was the breaking of the Union. The idea was to restore the Union. There seems to be virtually no discussion of the tariff when restoration of the national authority throughout the country is mentioned.

Your position is complete nonsense. It's not supported in the record.

And your response I quote above can only be seen as an attempt not at honest discussion, but Nazi/Soviet style disinformation.

Walt

718 posted on 02/04/2003 10:14:08 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa (To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men)
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To: WhiskeyPapa
The idea we were discussing was the breaking of the Union. The idea was to restore the Union. There seems to be virtually no discussion of the tariff when restoration of the national authority throughout the country is mentioned.

The tariff was in place and with restoration of the union came enforcement of that same tariff. What else is there to say, Walt?

Your position is complete nonsense. It's not supported in the record.

It is substantiated fact that you would not know the true record if it were glued to your forehead. It is therefore possible to conclude that you lack the credentials to evaluate that record's support of another's position as evaluation, by its nature, first requires recognition of its subject. It is therefore logical to conclude that you lack the credentials to make any sort of statement resembling or implying that which you just asserted above.

And your response I quote above can only be seen as an attempt not at honest discussion, but Nazi/Soviet style disinformation.

You have yet to even acknowledge my responses or the facts contained within them, Walt. In order to pass judgment of their status and factual validity, you must first know them to exist and acknowledge that existence by addressing them. You do not do any of these things. It is therefore logical to conclude that you lack the credentials to pass any sort of judgment on them as you do above. Try again.

722 posted on 02/04/2003 10:24:28 AM PST by GOPcapitalist
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