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To: DiogenesLamp
I read Sumner's speech. *I* would have beaten the sh*t out of him too, if he had said such things about one of my relatives.

I read it too. I was told it was obscene but I didn't find any obscenities.

Dang Confederacrats. I'm glad my Southern ancestors fought for the Union!

25 posted on 11/10/2024 8:22:20 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
I read it too. I was told it was obscene but I didn't find any obscenities.

I think that is an "eye of the beholder" thing. Certainly if you understood it to imply Butler was having sex with slaves, you would have considered it obscene in that era.

Dang Confederacrats. I'm glad my Southern ancestors fought for the Union!

What exactly was it that the confederates did that you object to?

And my family wasn't here in the 1860s, we were still living in Europe. My grandfather came over in the 1900s, and none of them settled in any of the Confederate states.

That's why I can see things objectively. I don't have ancestors that I feel I need to defend, or neighbors that I have to worry about not offending.

32 posted on 11/10/2024 8:36:43 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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