To: Grand Old Partisan
Your quotation form DiLorenzo's book states that Thaddeus Stevens was a Senator. Stevens was a Representative, chairmain of the House Ways and Means Committee. An author who displays such ignorance about his subject is not an authority to be cited. The bill was House Resolution 591.
DiLorenzo's description of what happened in the Senate is accurate.
To: nolu chan
Context is King, and if the author is so wrong about the identity of one of the major political figures in Congress at the time, then the book cannot be a reliable authority.
854 posted on
06/30/2003 7:28:45 AM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: nolu chan
"DiLorenzo's description of what happened in the Senate is accurate."
The law was not the "indeminity law", but the Habeas Corpus Act, and Dilorenzo misspelled "indemnity".
856 posted on
06/30/2003 7:37:57 AM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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