The father won. We all know what the son was.
Posted on 08/21/2010 7:17:45 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
I know I’m counting the says til the Chester A. Arthur coin comes. I’m going to put it right next to my Millard Fillmore!
And punted all of them.
So their solution was to start the war that ended in their destruction. That was stupid of them.
I believe you're incorrect on that.
And I often wonder, had both sides chosen a less bellicose form of persuasion, if the Union would not have reformed along lines of more durable, restrained constitutional government. It is one of the great “What ifs” of history.
I suppose there is a remote possibility that the confederate government might have done the same.
This is the first that I knew these coins even exist.
None of that applied in 1860.
Southerners wanted separation from the yankees, whom they had never gotten along with and, as you well know, that same sentiment continues to this day.
ROTFLMAO!!!! Y'all didn't have a problem when y'all were running things.
Lincoln could have met with the Southern peace envoy that was sent to DC.
There was no such envoy.
Lincoln could have removed the troops from Ft. Sumter.
Why? It was their fort.
Lincoln could have sought a peaceful resolution.
None was desired by the rebel side.
The first part of the above statement is reprehensibly offensive.
The truth sometimes hurts.
If it weren't for Southerners there never would have been an American Revolution...
Absolute bullsh*t.
Where would Lost Causers be without hate?
Only by people with no grasp of history.
But of course, the cost is irrelevant as long as he freed a bunch of blacks from Africa who would later embrace socialism and elect a Kenyan who is destroying the country, even as we speak. /sarc
Your bigotry is duly noted.
The father won. We all know what the son was.
‘Yeah there were some “pockets” of Unionists in North Carolina, and in north Alabama. You know “pockets”.’
There also were pockets in the frontier areas of north Florida. Also a pretty big ‘pocket’ in western Virginia, as I recall.
Whole counties were in rebellion against the Richmond regime in western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, northern Alabama, and parts of Florida. You know "counties."
Ohion provided 320,000 troops for the Civil War, third only to New York and Pennsylvania. Lincoln also beat McClellan by 13 percentage points in the 1864 election. Your claims of copperhead influence is widely exaggerated.
‘as long as he freed a bunch of blacks from Africa’
Perhaps you would have them returned to slavery?
I think it is a conspiracy to get tips up to $2s and $5s.
I’d really love to see obami eligible! It would make me happy and the country safer.
I like Harper Lee’s description of one such “pocket” in her book “To Kill A Mockingbird”;
“When Alabama seceded from the Union on 11 January 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama. North Alabama was full of liquor interest, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.’
A more modern interpretation would be;
” _______________ (fill in the name of your favorite lib area) was full of pot heads, unions, Democrats, liberal professors, and other persons of no background.’
With some “pockets”, one is better off without them.
No! Just go with the $1 coin and see what happens! (And good luck with that!) :-)
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