[lentulusgracchus]

I saw that -- following your reference to it.

[WhiskeyPapa]

I was just reading elsewhere that Lincoln's 1862 State of the Union Address (delivered in December) proposed several constitutional amendments, including a colonization proposal and another compensation proposal. Wonder why we don't read about that speech more often?

I quote it all the time:

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free--honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just--a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless."

12/01/62

Walt