Yeah, we got to that :)
I see I can do the discussion no more justice here, so I defer to source
here from 1927 that would take weeks more here to play out in posts. Coming full circle to the original post in this thread:
The objection that the war is water over the dam and that the problems of the present demand our attention is valid providing that history is all bunk and that there is nothing to learn from our past. But the problems of the present are largely the legacy of the past, and if the past had settled them right they wouldn't confront us at the present time.
And MANY other fun quotes, like quoting Bismark in analogy to Sumter:
"Success essentially depends upon the impression which the origination of the war makes upon us and others; it is important that we should be the party attacked."
K-State, Bubba, et al...I'm happy to continue to discuss if we refocus on this article and see where that goes. The rest was stuck in loops, but I feel most of your answers are in here if you choose to read.
Goodnight all. It's been a blast!
"The objection that the war is water over the dam and that the problems of the present demand our attention is valid providing that history is all bunk and that there is nothing to learn from our past. But the problems of the present are largely the legacy of the past, and if the past had settled them right they wouldn't confront us at the present time."I am reminded of the 1990s, and the passage of the liberals' beloved federal "gun bans." It was amazing to me how absolutely clueless they were, in terms of how seriously such a constitutional infringement was viewed by quite a large number of Americans. They had learned nothing from history, and were just as oblivious to the risk of violence and division as were the antebellum northerners, including Mr. Lincoln himself. (Gabor S. Boritt, Director of the Civil War Institute, and Fluhrer Professor at Gettysburg College, details the latter in his "And the War Came"? Abraham Lincoln and the Question of Individual Responsibility.)