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.
See 373.
There's one less of you to kick around this morning also...
capitan_refugio
Since September 22, 2000Bye, capitan_refugio.
"He's dead, Jim!"
Thanks for outting the liar."He's dead, Jim!"
bump!
I'd opt for Jefferson and Washington.
"States' rights" to Reagan is in no way similar to "States' rights" in the slave days, or in the Jim Crow days.
Your problem is that you insist on differentiating between Northern "states rights" and Southern. States rights refer to retained sovereign powers, and the limited scope of the federal government. That's exactly what Reagan referred to in his speeches. It the same as that espoused by Jefferson and Calhoun, John Taylor et al.
Reagan got that partly right, but it needs to be understood in context.
Huh? You STILL think the federal government created the states? Reagan got it exactly right.
First, you seem to conflate the Union of the States with the form of government.
The individual, several, separate, sovereign states agreed to UNITE with others for a specific purpose - that is what a UNION is. A UNION is not ONE. The form of government chosen is NOT a union - it's a form of government. The Constitution is the compact which specifies the terms of their agreemnet to UNITE and delineates the form of govenmnent, and the objects that the DELEGATED powers will encompass.
If you really want to make news, find me the quotation from Reagan where he laments the outcome of the Civil War and wishes for a return to the slave days of the antebellum south.
None of us here are advocating such - that's your problem, you can't separate a desire for limited government from slavery. The union you so dearly love practiced LEGALIZED slavery.
The President was never one of you.
'Jefferson Davis is a hero of mine.' - Ronald W. Reagan, 21 Sep 1980.
Looks like JR got a twofer there.
GOPcapitalist
Since 1999-10-30
got the ZOT as well......
Never read him, no do I care to. By all means, be small minded.
As I recall the context of that quote, written from a prison cell, your Fuhrer was writing about German nationalism.
My fuhrer? BWAHAHAHAHAahahahaha! He advocated the same position as you and Lincoln!
Man! I wonder why he took GOP Capitalist out?
Take it easy. Please.
haha!DumLiarFar* !
That tombstone always makes me chuckle. :)
Oh yeah......
Careful what doggy doo you throw, my friend. It may come back and slap you in the butt.
Nope. I figured it out, I think.Freeper GOPcapitalist's "In Forum" comments.
His LAST post there:
It's been a blast but it's time to say goodbye (GOPcap's opus)
Posted by GOPcapitalist to All
On General/Chat 04/21/2005 2:59:58 AM CDT · 422 of 435
To all who sent freepmail - thanks! I've got your emails and will be in contact.I just asked JR to remove my account at owner's request so I won't be able to answer anything else from it. Best regards!
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Fall River has a large Portuguese population, which I believe is Emeril's heritage.
Chef Emeril Lagasse received his first culinary experience from his mother, Hilda, when he was a boy growing up in the small town of Fall River, Massachusetts. As a teenager, he worked at a Portuguese bakery where he mastered the art of bread and pastry baking. Upon high school graduation, Lagasse was offered a full scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music, but decided to pursue a career as a professional chef. He earned a degree from the respected culinary fortress, Johnson and Wales University, and later received an honorary Doctorate degree from the university. Lagasse then traveled to Paris and Lyon where he polished his skills and learned the art of classic French cuisine. Returning to the United States, Lagasse practiced his art in fine restaurants in New York, Boston and Philadelphia before heading south to the Big Easy. Lured to New Orleans by Dick and Ella Brennan, Lagasse established his star at their legendary restaurant, Commander's Palace, where he was executive chef for seven and a half years.
http://www.emerils.com/emeril/biography.html
Portuguese cooking is guite good.
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