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To: Gianni
Link please.

Ain't one ;o)

"For more than two years, negroes had been extensively employed in belligerent operations by the Confederacy. They had been embodied and drilled as Rebel soldiers, and had paraded with White troops at a time when this would not have been tolerated in the armies of the Union."
Horace Greeley, The American conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, With the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery From 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Hartford, CN: O. D. Case & Co., Vol. 2, p. 524

103 posted on 02/26/2004 6:35:13 PM PST by 4CJ (||) OUR sins put Him on that cross - HIS love for us kept Him there. (||)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Old Horace wasn't much on pithy titles, eh?

Maybe he should've enlisted our own Prince of Pith to his aid on that one.

104 posted on 02/26/2004 6:56:55 PM PST by Gianni (Everyone's a closet economist.)
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