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.
What part of,
Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing; and as they retain every thing they have no need of particular reservations,
did you not understand?
Surrender nothing, except the right to deal with other nations. To form alliances, regulate their trade, coin money, decide on which government they wanted, keep troops, enter into compacts with other states, change their border a fraction of an inch, pass certain types of laws, to reject laws passed in other states if they disagreed with them, etc., etc. So if you don't have sole control of your borders, your government, your laws, and your commerce then how sovereign are you really?
Come on, I'm waiting. Why should I choose to vacation down south over places I enjoy going?
But if the people decline to change the laws that you disagree with, those laws are still binding on you. So regardless of what you want, nullification still is illegal. As is unilateral secession.
You belched out that poison without any help from me. Lick it up yourself.
So you can't come up with any reason, any reason at all, why I might want to vacation in the south? But you're so damned sure that I'm filled with hate.
I wouldn't say you're filled with hate at all. Same reason I'd never vacation outside of the South. Nothing I want to see up north enough to go visit it either. Only two places I would go is Minnesota to see a buddy of mine and Sturgis, SD. That's it.
Okay, fair enough, so let's review.
Here is the whole exchange. It begins with Non-Sequitur supporting a ranting attack by conservlib on the culture and cookery of the South in post 116. I replied to conservlib in post 218, and N-S commenced an empirical attack on my reply -- ergo, supporting conservlib's original rant:
conservlib (116) The South is a cultural hell hole, and they can't cook worth a crap!
me (218) Excuse me? Ever hear of a little old Southern town named New Orleans? As in, Emeril LaGasse and Paul Prudhomme? Jeez.
N-S (238) Emeril Lagasse was born in Fall River, MA. Even your heroes are yankees. Jeez.
[COMMENT] At this point, N-S is supporting conservlib fully, by trying to say that New Orleans lacks native kitchen ability but has to import it from New England. Notice also the mockery, which signals his contempt.
me (244) Are you suggesting that that is where he learned his cookery? May I invite you to sample the fine cooking of Fall River on a permanent basis?
N-S (251) No, he learned his cookery at Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island, perfected it in Paris and Lyon and New York and Boston and Philadelphia, all before moving to New Orleans, probably out of pity.
[COMMENT] It's clear enough now, N-S is putting a knock on New Orleans.
me (256) I'll pass your little note to the doormen at Arnaud's, Galatoire's, and all the other better eateries in New Orleans. You'll starve, if you ever go there.
N-S (263) 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.
Now that you can see his comment in context, you can see what he really meant. He didn't say, "I don't travel that much, never had an occasion to go down there," or "well, when I vacation I prefer to visit X and Y and Z." What he said was, "I don't vacation in the southern states." Notice that the structure, the archness of his lead-in, which modifies his reply, "I see no reason why I would want to." He isn't comparing the South to other travel destinations, he's making a statement (as he does above, repeatedly) about the South, viz., it's beneath consideration. He is expressing aversion to the South, not a preference for other venues. He's spitting on the region and telling us that he wouldn't go there for anything, because there's nothing there to go for.
That's why I say he was expressing prejudice and the odium of regional bigotry. Q.E.D.
Noni:
Why don't you know that Texas IS God's gift to the Universe?:)
If God isn't a Texas Longhorn, then why is the sunset burnt orange? :)
My God what a lunatic thread. Nice to read at least two voices on sanity. Very interesting posts.
No baby, I love the south for its weather, and its people. You would never catch me dead in a BBQ joint, however. Thank you.
The South's taste buds is corrupted because its heritage is Mostly English, and German. New Orleans food is superior because their taste is influenced by superior culture of good cooking, France! It is that simple.
okay I can see that. understood
Thank you. Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment.
With respect to your proclivity for making up stories, and for confederate myth-making in general, let's note for the record that Chief Justice Salmon Chase wasn't the only person to write a majority opinion which deemed unilateral secession, as practiced by the southern states in 1860-61, to have no constitutional basis. His opinion in Texas v White is remembered for its clarity, its logic, and its finality.
Now where is the neo-rebs' legal "expert"? Oh yeah, banned for his obnoxious, bigoted, and racist posts.
Look again. That's the Orange of the Fighting Illini.
BS
Post such to prove your assertaition, or retract your lies.
let's note for the record that Chief Justice Salmon Chase wasn't the only person to write a majority opinion which deemed unilateral secession, as practiced by the southern states in 1860-61, to have no constitutional basis.
The Supreme Court, and indeed the entire federal government, are creatures of the people, and subservient to them - the courts are not their masters. The Constitution requires that the states governments be 'republician' [representative], and as such, the seceding states exercised their sovereign right to modify their form of government. The states had previously done so (New England Confederacy, Articles of Association, separate and independent declarations of independence, Articles Of Confederation, Constituion). No provision of the Constitution prohibits secession, Chase invented it for those stupid and gullible to believe anything.
His opinion in Texas v White is remembered for its clarity, its logic, and its finality.
Bwhahahahahaha! The holding in the case is the reverse of waht is hould be on the bonds based on the facts. Regarding it's finality, if such were the case, leaglized segregation would be the law of the land. What a maroon!
Now where is the neo-rebs' legal "expert"? Oh yeah, banned for his obnoxious, bigoted, and racist posts.
You just got caught lying again - the "racism" in the post that caused his banishment was that of LINCOLN. The words were LINCOLN's. The person using the 'N' word was LINCOLN. LOL! You just called your beloved dicatator a racist!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahaha!
I know where I'll eat from now on.
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