Posted on 04/14/2005 6:40:53 PM PDT by kellynla
At Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally wounds President Abraham Lincoln. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Booth, who remained in the North during the war despite his Confederate sympathies, initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, the president failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait. Two weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces. In April, with Confederate armies near collapse across the South, Booth hatched a desperate plan to save the Confederacy.
Learning that Lincoln was to attend Laura Keene's acclaimed performance in Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater on April 14, Booth plotted the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William H. Seward. By murdering the president and two of his possible successors, Booth and his conspirators hoped to throw the U.S. government into a paralyzing disarray.
On the evening of April 14, conspirator Lewis T. Powell burst into Secretary of State Seward's home, seriously wounding him and three others, while George A. Atzerodt, assigned to Vice President Johnson, lost his nerve and fled. Meanwhile, just after 10 p.m., Booth entered Lincoln's private theater box unnoticed, and shot the president with a single bullet in the back of his head. Slashing an army officer who rushed at him, Booth jumped to the stage and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants]--the South is avenged!" Although Booth had broken his left leg jumping from Lincoln's box, he succeeded in escaping Washington.
The president, mortally wounded, was carried to a cheap lodging house opposite Ford's Theater. About 7:22 a.m. the next morning, he died--the first U.S. president to be assassinated. Booth, pursued by the army and secret service forces, was finally cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia, and died from a possibly self-inflicted bullet wound as the barn was burned to the ground. Of the eight other persons eventually charged with the conspiracy, four were hanged and four were jailed.
But they weren't, despite your misinterpretation of Article 2 of the AoC&PU. There were certain sovereign powers that were denied to the states in that document. If the states are denied the sovereign powers of making war or peace, contracting treaties with other sovereign entities, etc., then they cannot claim the full range of sovereign powers. Art. 2 is made in reference to their "internal" sovereignty - that is to say, other states could not interfere in their own internal affairs.
Were they sovereign, in the accepted sense of the term? A sovereign state exercises complete control over its territory and its actions. Did states? Could they carry on relations with other sovereign nations and states? No. Could they acquire territory or expand their influence? No. Could they raise armies, coin money, set their trade policies? No, no, and no. Could they decide their own form of government? Hell, no. The Constitution allows the states to run things within their own borders, within the restrictions and controls placed on them. They could no more unilaterally leave the Union than they could unilaterally join.
You can't stand that, can you? And no wonder -- neither can your theory.
I can stand it very well. I love a good laugh, and I get one every time you go off on one of your crazy sovereignty kicks
I've been to New Orleans twice in my life, only as long as it took to get from the airport to the cruise ship, and then from the cruise ship to the airport a week later. I don't vacation in the southern states. I see no reason why I would want to.
How so?
Yes. It was called the Democrat Party, and they lost miserably at the polls.
WELL, You missed a great city. New Orleans is one of the most interesting cities in the US, the food is wonderful, people are friendly, etc.
Then why on Earth would you want one more Yankee there, cluttering up the streets, lengthening the lines at the restaurants, hanging around the Riverwalk, etc., etc.? You should be thanking me for not being interested, shouldn't you?
I'm guessing that internal sovereignty would include the right to peacefully remain in the Union without concern the other states would try to remove, restrict, or otherwise encroach on her territory.
I think there was a bottle or two of wine involved as well, probably French. That bit about notifying the doormen at all the finer eating establishments in New Orleans sounded a bit..fermented.
Noni:
I don't have a thing against Yankees, as long as they respect my culture and heritage, and when they visit, respect my region. When I was in the Navy, I was stationed in Groton, Ct., and made every effort to be polite and cordial, as I was a guest there. I even visited the monument commemorating the men of the Kearsarge, and their sinking of the CSS Alabama. My best friend in the world is from Norwalk, CT.
Then his notification will be in vain. Dozens of doormen will scrutinize every patron, looking for someone who isn't interested in coming.
Yes, among other things. N-S's #262 is a tour-de-force concerning some of the issues of external vs. internal sovereignty. We need to keep in mind that Madison, the chief architect of the Constitution, described the form of government developed at the Philadelphia Convention as being without historical precedent. The new constitutional form of government did not fit nicely into theories of sovereignty that were understood in those days.
I was pretty sure you were prejudiced, even hateful, against Southerners, but that statement removes all doubt.
Save to hard drive, everybody. His post is a document.
I was pretty sure you were prejudiced, even hateful, against Southerners, but that statement removes all doubt
I wish all yankees felt that way. Take your vacations to Canada, France, North Korea, China, Denmark and wherever the hell else you decadent, communist yankees go.
Your unwanted presence in the South is no less contaminating than the deadly chemical cocktail that was dumped in Love Canal.
That's an idea. Take your vacations there. And make sure to drink plenty of the invigorating water.
You are being ridiculous yet again. Why am I predjudiced? I don't vacation in North Dakota or New York City either, and see no reason why I would want to. Does that make me predjudiced against, even hateful against them? I don't vacation in southern states because there is nothing there I want to see or do. Why does that make me hateful? I visit places like Philadelphia and Chicago and LA because I have family there. I visit Wisconsin because I like the fishing. I pass through places like New Orleans or Fort Lauderdale or Seattle because my wife and I like cruises. Why should I vacation somewhere I don't want to? Just to prove to you that I'm not predjudiced or hateful? Would you be willing to vacation in Detroit to prove that you're not bigoted against Yankees?
I've got a secret for you, my man. It's a deep dark secret but I'll let you in on it anyway. Just because you think that Texas is God's gift to the universe, I would be willing to bet real money that the majority of the people in this country, and certainly the world, would disagree with you. There, I've said it. Sorry if it blows your self-esteem but that can't be helped. Now that you know the truth you will just have to deal with the harsh reality. Seek professional help if necessary.
That's like saying, I don't vacation in France because there's nothing there I would want to see or do. Yeah, right.
I don't vacation in France because the waiters are snotty to Americans. I don't vacation in Mexico because the police like to arrest Americans and hold them for ransom -- legally, or illegally. And because you get sick down there. I don't vacation in Hawaii because it's expensive. I don't vacation in Japan because it's far away, expensive to travel to and in, and because of the language barrier. I don't vacation in Iraq because it's a war zone, notwithstanding that Babylon, Nimrud, and Ur of the Chaldees are there.
The reasons you give are weak tea. We all know what you meant.
Now that your pants are down around your ankles, you want them back up again -- but you didn't mind mooning me two minutes ago, when you thought I was the only one who'd notice.
You are as full of crap as a Christmas turkey, you know that? So tell me, why am I supposed to vacation in the south?
Lincoln was a giant of a man. Before his death he gave re-birth to the promises of the Declaration of Indepdence that were made to everyone.
If that's what it takes to keep you out of the South ...
He CAN'T quote it, because it doesn't exist. He made it up, just like Justice Chase.
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