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.
Or in other words you cannot prove that I ever said that I couldn't find your picture on this thread...
Since that was the basis for you calling me a LIAR, I suppose I should be getting an apology from you shortly.
Perhaps I get it after the one you owe me for calling me a FRAUD and SAYING I WAS NEVER A MARINE.
I won't be holding my breath while I wait.
even the DIMMEST members of the "DAMNyankee coven" will RIDICULE you for #278.
PLEASE post more of that sort of IGNORANT, STUPID bilge & LIES!
lol AT you!
free dixie,sw
btw, are you trying to take "Mr. SPIN's" place as out resident DUMB-bunny OR do you HOPE that a FEW of our readers will believe your NONSENSE???
free dixie,sw
Still no comment on Kirk KKK Lyons?
we participants in these threads used to post SERIOUS scholarship on these threads PRIOR to the arrival of a HANDFUL of LOUD-mouthed,REVISIONIST, STATIST, ignorant, south-HATING BIGOTS & FOOLS from the "lunatic fringe" of DAMNyankeeism, who "know NOT & know NOT that they know NOT".
as a southerner, i REFUSE to "sit quietly" while they post KNOWING LIES about our CSA ancestors, the struggle for dixie FREEDOM & my FAMILY.
when they stop LYING, i'll happily return to the "old regime" here on the threads.
as ONE example of the STUPIDITY of SOME of the members of "the DAMNyankee coven", ONE said that NOTHING in the official US ARCHIVES in Washington, DC, "can be believed, as the rebs just go over there and change the records to make the north look bad." (this person is not only HATE-filled, but a BIGOTED FOOL as well!)
free dixie,sw
i'm coming to the conclusion, as are several other "WBTS-thread folks", that you are in a word, STUPID. further, that you think you're SMART & that's REALLY hilarious!
but PLEASE rave on, as you serve the dixie LIBERTY cause.
lol AT you! (i note that you didn't tell us if you mind being the BUTT of numerous JOKES about STUPIDITY & BIGOTRY on these threads.)
free dixie,sw
Civility died on Civil war threads because of you STAND,
you don't allow opposing opinions to be explored and discussed.
"I don't know that I'd say they take it too seriously, for it's a serious topic, but a little civility all around might make the read more interesting for those of us who lurk."
I agree 100%. Those who resort to just trying to be rude and nasty are simply afraid of the truth being told. The obvious animosity on both sides is a clear indication that things are not right. Otherwise there would be no need for bantering. The Yankees that are at odds with this, know very well that wrongs were committed, which were not allotted for in our constitution. The Confederates are simply sick and tired of them continuously demoralizing the South with their nonsense. Anyway, the whole point is, our constitution does not allow a president to conduct war on his own people. So, there is no, honest Abe. He conducted this war for money. The South was his bread and butter and he was not going to let them leave. The North had outrageous and unconstitutional taxes ONLY for the South. The South's biggest mistake was trusting that the North would abide by our constitution. However, as we see today, constitutions simply don't mean diddly squat. So, what means very little today, had it's humble beginnings during the Lincoln administration where an all-powerful, non-accountable, centralized government was established...
Also...This was exactly what Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were quite certain would happen. Patrick Henry, much more so than Jefferson. For Henry REFUSED to attend certain meetings for this very reason...
NOBODY, with the possible exception of "Mr. SPIN" the LUNATIC & FOOL, will believe that the loss of "civility" was ANYONE's fault, but that of the HATERS of the SCALAWAG/DAMNyankee LUNATIC fringe.
PITY, that you don't see the truth there. WHEN people like you "stick a sock in it" & stop posting LIES about & HATRED of our southern FREEDOM-fighters(and of our FAMILIES, too!), these threads will do "just fine, thank you."
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
Thank you very much. See, the lurkers provide much more than they realize...
I mute my speakers to read your posts STAND.
That's how loudly you rant at anyone that doesn't follow your view.
Very true.
Why does the South have to be demoralizes by people just telling the truth about the slaveowners' rebellion?
Here's a fine example of demoralization from the diary of Confederate Myra Inman on May 8, 1865:
"Mysterious it is to me why God permitted such a sad calamity to befall our South. Why He permitted the noblest blood of the South to be sacrificed for the bondage of the sable race"
Too bad Miss Inman didn't have Free Republic or she could have read that the noblest blood of the South was sacrificed for tariffs or states' rights and not for the "bondage of the sable race".
Yet again the words of the Confederates themselves reveal the ugly foundation of the CSA.
Okay. You are once again posting to me with no intent other than to incite a riot. You and I have nothing to talk about and that has been clearly established. So, since you have bad intentions...get lost!
I think STAND's been spending too much time talking with his alternate persona non grata's.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
are you REALLY so stupid that you cannot separate that a LAWYER represents "right wing extremists", "LEFTISTS", "common criminals" & "large corporations", from the lawyer's PERSONAL views?????
LAWYERS work for ALL SORTS of clients for $$$$$$$$$. PITY that you're evidently too DUMB to understand that SIMPLE fact.
don't you get TIRED of being RIDICULED as a FOOL & NITWIT????
free dixie,sw
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