Posted on 07/26/2006 3:22:50 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - July 19, 2006 - A University of Illinois researcher had discovered a fourth copy of a rare letter Abraham Lincoln had written by to the nation's governors in 1861.
The letter John Lupton found Tuesday in the Lehigh County Historical Society's holdings was one Lincoln wrote as part of an unsuccessful ratification process for a constitutional amendment Congress adopted during the term of his predecessor, President James Buchanan, that would have made slavery the law of the land.
The president remembered for abolishing slavery had been willing to push the amendment as "kind of a carrot to the Southern states" if that would preserve the union, said Lupton, associate director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
"But even by that point, it was too late. By that time, the Southern states felt Lincoln's election was an affront," Lupton said. In fact, the letter discovered in Allentown was addressed to "His Excellency the Governor of the State of Florida," which had seceded from the union two months earlier.
Until Tuesday, only three of the letters were known to have survived. "It's a very cool document," Lupton said.
Joseph Garrera, the historical society director, said he will consult with the society's board to determine the best way to display the document and try to figure out exactly who donated the letter.
PITY!
why not leave FR permanently, head over to DU & sup with persons (MANY of whom used to be members of "the DAMNyankee coven" on FR!),who share your DUMB outlook on life???
take "Mr SPIN", the BIGOT, with you as you dance out the door. NEITHER of you will be missed on FR.
lol AT you.
free dixie,sw
and tell the TRUTH for once. you NEVER worked a DAY at the NOLA Confederate Museum, did you??? (or did they FIRE YOU, as soon as they found out that you are a SCALAWAG/TURNCOAT???)
lol AT you!
free dixie,sw
1. a SINCERE & heartfelt APOLOGY for the slaughter of the 92 MURDERED members of MY family and for those of ALL the OTHER families, whose loved ones were RAPED/ROBBED/ASSAULTED/TOUTURED/MURDERED, by "the filth that flowed down from the north",
2.that congress pass & the POTUS sign, a law establishing a "National Day of Prayer,Mourning & Contrition" (to be designated & observed annually) for the ATROCITIES committed in the name of the USA during the WBTS,
3. the south-HATING,radical REVISIONIST BILGE removed from all public school textbooks,
4. that the "lincoln memorial" be removed from VA, and
5. the federal government simply get OUT of our schools, homes, churches & synagogues & out of our LIVES for GOOD.
those things would "bind up the bleeding wounds" of so MANY southerners.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
Anything you want to say to embarrass me about my service to this country, you can say in an open forum, but you better be able to back up whatever you say with verifiable proof from a reliable source, such as The United States Marine Corps.
that's why i tried to ask YOU.
UNLIKE the members of "the DAMNyankee coven of lunatics, haters, weirdos & at least ONE BIGOT", i do NOT assume everything that someone says is FACTUAL, just because i don't personally like the other person. (for example, "mac_truck" is evidently dumb enough to believe a KNOWN liar, just because he doesn't LIKE me. thus he believes ANYTHING that someone says that is NEGATIVE & NOTHING that is POSITIVE. it's called UNthinking, ignorant,PREJUDICE!)
that's why i tried to ask YOU.
UNLIKE the members of "the DAMNyankee coven of lunatics, haters, weirdos & at least ONE BIGOT", i do NOT assume everything that someone says is FACTUAL, just because i don't personally like the other person. (for example, "mac_truck" is evidently dumb enough to believe a KNOWN liar, just because he doesn't LIKE me or my message. thus he believes ANYTHING that someone says that is NEGATIVE & NOTHING that is POSITIVE. it's called UNthinking, ignorant,PREJUDICE!)
free dixie,sw
TRUTH,morality,integrity, fairness & the WELFARE of the common members is NOT on the agenda of the "leaders". the "leadership" serves ONLY the "leaders"! (that is the MAIN reason i left the NAACP membership.)
btw, i'll give your UNknowing, arrogantly ignorant, personal opinions all the respect those OPINIONS deserve = NONE.
free dixie,sw
Go ahead STAND hit me with whatever you have, anything you got that comes from someone that doesn't have the balls to say it themselves, isn't going to hurt me at all, and if you are willing to be his puppet and proxy, so be it.
That is of course, if you have anything at all, and aren't bluffing your way out of a jam once again.
"mac_truck" is evidently dumb enough to believe a KNOWN liar,"
Since I believe that all the information mac_truck has gathered on you has come from what you have told everyone about yourself, wouldn't you be the KNOWN liar, you are talking about????
STAND, time to put up or shut up and show us what you got, I don't even need to know who told you what, since I going to assume you are making it up as you go along anyway.....
the "mods" didn't have a lot of "sense of humor" about a KNOWN LIAR attempting to ruin someone's reputation, absent ANY proof of his allegations. when a "nice lady of the forum " pointed out several instances of portions of the "expose", which had been "modified" to say something other than what was obviously meant "in context", he was GONE. (btw,there's a word for that too. it's called LYING!)
what i said to "mac" about people, who believe "the WORST" of others, based on whether he personally LIKES them or not, goes for YOU "in spades".
such people are called BIGOTS, by "fair-minded persons"
free dixie,sw
Frankly, your pathetic need for ATTENTION has caused you to embroider the truth over the years or make up from whole cloth many "facts" which, when put together now, contradict one another in a quite humorous fashion. IOW your self aggrandizing stories(just like your bizarre perception of history) do not pass the "sniff" test, although when strung together they make for some enjoyable reading. Link.
My conclusion is that your constant spamming of these threads is symptomatic of a larger psychological problem, perhaps some form of Munchausen's symdrone, which would be more humorous if it weren't so..sad.
Get some professional help chief, or paint yourself blue and jump off a cliff. It really doesn't matter to me.
pardon me, but your ignorant PREJUDICE is showing.
you would be MUCH happier over on DU. why not head over there TODAY. they will welcome you with "OPEN ARMS". (btw, i'm told by someone i trust that your "author" of the "expose" is a member of DU & very active with Whisky Papa, cvn76, #3fan & a HOST of other BANNED ex-FReepers. ALL of them are former members of the "DY coven". NONE of them are "rebs".)
you'll feel "right at home" & nobody on DU will RIDICULE you or "hurt your poor, little feelings", by pointing out that you evidently are "mentally challenged" & a BIGOT/south-HATER/fool.
free dixie,sw
Too much trouble. How about we just give you a forum where you can flap your gums and complain about how it would be sooooo much better in that tin-horn, despotic, banana-republic that the confederacy was on a path towards becoming?
1 locking up people who disagreed with him up without warrant/indictment, or even a SHAM trial,
2. confining both civilians (who had done NOTHING UNlawful) and prisoners of war in CONCENTRATION CAMPS to be starved/assaulted/raped/denied food,clothing,medical care/murdered in cold blood,
3. enforcing the laws that agreed with and IGNORING the ones that would have restrained his excesses &
4. surrounding himself with a bunch of "yes men", who NEVER tried to "rein him in" regardless of how dishonest, immoral, hate-FILLED and/or UNwise his inclinations were,
YEP, "DIShonest abe" might well have taken the WHOLE of the USA into "dictatorship".
free dixie,sw
Sorry but every single action you mentioned was done by Jefferson Davis.
as i've said before, "lincoln the clay-footed, secular saint of DAMNyankeeland" was JUST LIKE wee willie klintoon.
BOTH would do ANYTHING for $$$$$$$ & POWER. ANYTHING!
as for President Davis, he didn't even WANT to be POTCSA. instead he wanted to be a GENERAL in the PACSA. (YOU, UNlike the rest of the unionists here, are smart enough to KNOW that.)
free dixie,sw
as for President Davis, he didn't even WANT to be POTCSA. instead he wanted to be a GENERAL in the PACSA.
Instead the confederacy got a twofer. An incompetent as president acting as an incompetent commander in chief. Jeff Davis did more to win the war for the Union than Sheman and Grant combined.
Ah, another of those mysterious, unverifiable "sources" that you constantly trot out. Is this the same one who told you that I'd been banned?
Or is it, like I suspect, another of those pesky voices in your head?
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