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.
LOL!
Wow! This apparently was a real fun thread.
I'm glad that I was re arranging our house after our new carpets was laid.
There is no room on a site like this for stalkers.
Sheesh, what's going on with people this week? (Purely rhetorical, no right answer.)
:-)
Wrong. No story was created, nolu chan was not tricked, this is just further proof of your ludicrous lies. My tagline states the truth, Nolu chan was banned for quoting Lincoln. To prove it, I'll post his entire post, with links and LINCOLN's words removed, and then you tell what was bannable about it?
====================================================What bannable about that?Roy Prentice Basler published the definitive collection of Lincoln quotes.
ALL LINKS go to the Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler. Italics in original.
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Way to go Abe!! Dropped the N-bomb four times in one paragraph in a public speech.
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Way to go Abe!! Quite a stump speech you have going there! Different newspaper, four n-bombs.
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With regard to the second clause, that first appeared the day after GOPc disappeared. You apparently attribute his short time-out to an alleged quote from the boss. But you knew full well that GOPC was caught in several ... shall we say ... mistruths.
You're a habitual liar. The reason I wrote that quoting Jim is a bannable offense is because it was true in this case - GOPCapitalist was banned for a day for doing nothing more than directing the moderators attention to the admonishment that Mr. Robinson had previously sent YOU.
I have the UTMOST respect for Mr. Robinson, if he'd like me to change my tagline I will do so.
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You're not the only one. This thread has been a revelation.
Personally, I find all of our beautiful country to be worth visiting.
Looks like there was no love loss between GOPcapitalist and capitan_refugio on that thread.......
YIPES!!!!!
:)
Apparently capitan_refugio was stalking GOP Capitalist,
and got caught by JimRob LYING about GOPC.GOPC is gone too, but because he requested his account
be closed.
Nonesense, no one here is advocating slavery in any fashion. Desiring a limited government, and recognizing the legality & right of self-government is the object.
But there are long time Freepers who can openly discuss rebellion, killing American troops and murdering Presidents. It doesn't make sense.
Heck yeah I agree, they talk about rebellion, even though the Confederacy never attempted to overthrow the Lincoln administration. They talk about killing Americans troops - but according to them we never left right?, and yet they wish that MORE extermination of Southerners had occured. They talk about murdering Presidents, which was attempted at least once by Kilpatrick/Dahlgren after Butler's raid failed. In this second raid President Davis and his cabinet were to be killed, and the city of Richmond (and inhabitants) burned to the ground. Admirably, President Davis nor anyone here advocates retribution/assassination/murder - the DU'ers want to insinuate such, but are wrong.
Looks like JR got a twofer there.
GOPcapitalist
Since 1999-10-30
got the ZOT as well......
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Yikes. Usually it's someone who signed up the same day as the post who gets ZOTTED.
No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass. Of consequence, when they act, they act in their States.
Thanks for the clarification. I don't like to see any long-time member choose to leave, regardless of whether or not I agree with their perspective on issues. A ZOTTING is another subject entirely.
Yep, you nailed it. I repeatedly posted to him that we are ALL one blood - descendents of Adam & Eve. He never agreed with me, and after reading his white supremacist rants understand why.
Thanks!
Goodbye my friend.
You're welcomed.And yep! :)
"Whoever would understand in his heart the meaning of America will find it in the life of Abraham Lincoln" -- Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981
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