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.
every post that you place on FR is that of a DUMB-bunny, IGNORANT nitwit & HATER!
lol AT you! (don't you get tired of being the BUTT of most of the JOKES on FR???)
free dixie,sw
however, the was FOR LIBERTY, thus your base premise is FAULTY & thus your argument (such as it is) is also FALSE.
PITY that you evidently don't understand that rather simple TRUTH.
free dixie,sw
NEITHER of you seem to have a CLUE as to what the war was really about. (hint: NOBODY but FOOLS believe that the south seceded to fight for slavery!)
the LEFTISTS, that spew out that NONSENSE like so much sewage, laugh "behind their hands" AT anybody, who is DUMB enough to believe their hate-FILLED, sanctimonious,LIES! such "true believers" are known as "useful idiots". (this means the TWO of you.)
free dixie,sw
The Mods aren't going to delete this thread STAND no matter how much kicking and screaming you do.
free dixie,sw
But not so much that they ever make an appearance on these threads.
What taxes would those be?
In other words, "I want a civil dialogue, but don't say anything with which I might disagree"
Or, in a shorter form: "Fiddle dee dee."
you're whimpering now STAND.
the TWO of you will be CELEBRITIES over on DU, as you will be APPLAUDED for your arrogance,your lunatic-fringe REVISIONISM,your hatred for dixie, your BIGOTRY & IGNORANCE & in "Mr SPIN's" case, because he is a "useful idiot".
free dixie,sw
The same applies to you as Mr. Kangaroo. You are both two peas in a pod...
Two peas loyal to the US flag.
Now, tell me what tax was only imposed on the south, as you claimed. Tell me what mass grave of blacks was found in New York that shows Lincoln in a bad light. You keep coming on these threads, making irresponsible statements, then acting all indignant when you're challenged on them. You claim to want a civil debate. Then present some evidence for your argument.
You are annoying to no end. But, as you stated before, that is your goal. I will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER prove anything to the likes of you or any of your cohorts. For it would not matter a whit when your goal is to DESTROY. Get a clue and get lost, double-quick...
Predictable. In other words, you refuse to present even the slightest smidgen of evidence for your argument. You make extraordinary claims--that there's a mass grave in New York that shows Lincoln in a bad light, but you refuse to show anything about it. (The truth: a colonial-era black cemetery was found in New York years ago. It fell into disuse before Lincoln was even born.) You claim that "the North had outrageous and unconstitutional taxes ONLY for the South," but you can't point to a single piece of evidence that supports such a claim. (The truth: there was no such thing as a tax only for the south. Tariffs MAY have impacted the south more heavily because they received no benefit from them due to their being exclusively agricultural and not industrial, but the greater consumption of imports in the north more than overcomes that argument).
You want respect? Don't treat us like fools who are supposed to swallow whatever anti-American bilge you're dredging up from the Kennedy brothers or DiLorenzo.
This from a woman who celebrates an attempt to break up the United States.
Wrong. The South's bigest mistake was their prideful belief they could ever whip the North in a fight. In their hubris they fired on the US Flag at Ft. Sumter and suffered the consequences...
You fall into the category of, "Cohort"...
it had reached a point that the south would DEFEND HER RIGHTS/SOIL or capitulate to the DAMNyankee RADICALS.
LOSING is preferable to COWARDICE! (btw, somebody call the DIMocRATS National Committee & tell them THAT! SURRENDER is the DIMs FAVORITE WORD!)
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
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