[ml/nj]

ROTFLMAO!!!!

You should go to college sometime. It really is enlightening. Try my statement out on almost any mainstream history professor and see what he says.

ML/NJ

[Non-Sequitur]

Try my statement out on almost any mainstream history professor and see what he says.

There is no doubt that our government is a long way from what the Founders expected. But your blaming it all on Lincoln merely because he opposed the Southern rebellion is what's funny. As is your claim that the Founders would have necessarily supported the Southern secession. Madison, for one, would have found it illegal.

[central_va]

You should go to college sometime. It really is enlightening. Try my statement out on almost any mainstream history professor and see what he says.

You may force me to admit there might be some Yankees of good character. I know living in Yankee/Rinoland is hell.....

[mojitojoe]

“I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District [of Columbia]...” -— Abraham Lincoln, 3/24/1862 letter to Horace Greely, New York Tribune editor

“I will say, then, that I am not, nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races ... I am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” -— Abraham Lincoln

“I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.” -— Abraham Lincoln, upon his replacement of General Burnside with General Hooker for command of the Army of the Potomac