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Rare Lincoln Letter Found in Allentown
AP ^ | July 19, 2006 | AP

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.


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To: usmcobra
once more, i do NOT CARE what you asked. (as i said, i didn't even LOOK at it.)

from now on,i'm just RIDICULING for being a TURNCOAT southerner & SCALAWAG.

i am NOT alone in thinking that you are BENEATH contempt & just an EMBARRASSMENT to FR. a nice lady "from out west" (who lurks on FR but seldom posts) said in a PM that you are an idiot. she asked me why i "bother to answer his (YOUR) posts". frankly, i couldn't think of a GOOD reason, other than RIDICULING you.)

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401 posted on 08/12/2006 4:31:08 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Stand, attempting to turn back the hands of time to the Deep South of the 1850's.


402 posted on 08/12/2006 4:39:23 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: M. Espinola
there you go again "Mr. SPIN", being BOTH hate-FILLED & exhibiting the established FACT that you are STUPID!

laughing AT you, FOOL.

free dixie,sw

403 posted on 08/12/2006 4:41:40 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: M. Espinola
your post #402 makes me also wonder if you are a RACIST???

FR is NOT a place for BIGOTS! be gone to DU!

free dixie,sw

404 posted on 08/12/2006 4:43:48 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: stand watie
Do you really review this blather after posting it?

The ravings of a raging madman!

LUNATIC fringe of DAMnyankees DUNCE, "DUNCE-in-Chief" a BIGOT & you've lost again, scalawag a purveyor of LIES! DUMB-bunny "scam" FOOL & NITWIT FOOLED you????RIDICULING HATE-filled CONFEDERATE GROUPS/INSTITUTIONS FOOL and/or a HATER/BIGOT????"TURNCOAT, a DUNCE

405 posted on 08/12/2006 4:50:54 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: stand watie
"FR is NOT a place for BIGOTS!"

Then, why do you remain?

406 posted on 08/12/2006 4:52:05 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: stand watie
It's only because I am such a gracious Southern gentleman and Real patriot that I've pretty much allowed you to dig your our grave so far when it comes to Knowledge of Southern History.

And since I am so gratious I'll give you a clue

It's a submarine.

And since That might not be enough to aid you, here's another clue.

It IS NOT the CSS Hunley.

For those of you playing along at home your second clue is:It also was once home to the Louisiana State Supreme Court for the controversial “separate but equal” ruling by the state’s high court Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896.

Remember that the "KNOW YOUR CONFEDERACY" play at home extra special bonus clue can only be seen with your specially selected viewer.

407 posted on 08/12/2006 4:52:51 PM PDT by usmcobra (Hey Stand, who's standing in Lee Circle?)
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To: stand watie
Do you a few ..

?

408 posted on 08/12/2006 4:55:57 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: usmcobra
once more (SIGH!) i do NOT CARE!

all i'm doing from now on is RIDICULING YOU & "Mr SPIN", the BIGOT, too.

BOTH of you should leave FR (holding hands) for DU,permanently, NOW!

free dixie,sw

409 posted on 08/12/2006 5:00:46 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: M. Espinola
laughing AT you, FOOL!

off to DU with you! (they like "useful idiots" over there.)

free dixie,sw

410 posted on 08/12/2006 5:01:54 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: M. Espinola
just for the records, that book is "just about your speed" = STUPID, nitwitted & CHILDISH.

the reviewers at PBS & the NY SLIMES just "loved it".

free dixie,sw

411 posted on 08/12/2006 5:04:33 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: M. Espinola
virtually ALL of those terms FIT you to a TEE, "Mr. SPIN".

be GONE to DU!

RIDICULING YOU!

free dixie,sw

412 posted on 08/12/2006 5:09:30 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: M. Espinola
one reason is because i like "OUTING" BIGOTS.

and #402 makes you LOOK like a RACIST. are YOU one???

a simple YES/NO answer is acceptable.

free dixie,sw

413 posted on 08/12/2006 5:13:36 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Mo1; Ciexyz; ...

ping


414 posted on 08/12/2006 5:14:29 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7

Thanks for the ping


415 posted on 08/12/2006 5:34:35 PM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: Mo1
interesting homepage!

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416 posted on 08/12/2006 5:39:12 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: stand watie
Let it never be said that I didn't give you ample opportunity to prove what you know.

The vessel is a prototype submarine built by Tredegar Iron Works and once used by Baxter Watson, James McClintock, Horace L. Hunley, John K. Scott, Robert Ruffin Barrow, and Henry J. Leovy to test, design and eventally build the CSS Hunley.

And as those of you playing along at home might have guessed by now, This Vessel is on display in The Cablido Museum (second clue)on Jackson Square (first clue) in New Orleans.

How anyone from South Carolina who has had any interest what so ever in Confedrate submarines especially the CSS Hunley, not have known about the original prototype being on display in New Orleans(especially since they did "research" in New Orleans while at Tulane) is beyond me but once again it seems I have proved that STAND really doesn't know half he says he does.

417 posted on 08/12/2006 5:43:21 PM PDT by usmcobra (Hey Stand, who's standing in Lee Circle?)
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To: usmcobra; All
once more (SIGH), from now on ALL i will do in response to your NONSENSE & BILGE is RIDICULE YOU!

your opinions mean ZILCH. i care NOTHING about what you think or IF you think .

frankly, you are an EMBARRASSMENT to the southland.

lol AT you!

free dixie,sw

418 posted on 08/12/2006 6:07:48 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: stand watie

What opinions of mine?

I asked you for what you knew and proved you don't know Confederate history.

And I did it with things you should have known based upon places you say you have been and things you have said you knew about.

I'm the one here that has truly ridiculed you, I've torn down the carefully crafted image of the all knowing confederate champion you have claimed to be.

You see, "LOL" and "screaming out how you don't care" doesn't win you any debates, it only marks you as an immature individual pressed for any sort salvation in continous defeats.

Frankly I'm bored with you. It's all too easy for me to expose you for what you are.

But as long as you want to prove what you are, I'll let you.


419 posted on 08/12/2006 6:29:54 PM PDT by usmcobra (Hey Stand, who's standing in Lee Circle?)
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To: stand watie
"DAMNyankeeland." "bigots", "racists",

Tell everyone once again about the Klan's & neo-Nazi's offical lawyer, Kirk Lyons, being such a "good friend" of yours. Those are your words on FR on various threads.

"Mere Klan membership should not be sufficient to remove a member," white-supremacist attorney Kirk Lyons, a close associate of SCV Commander-in-Chief Ron Wilson, wrote members in a March e-mail. Rick Forlines, head of the Norfolk County Greys SCV camp, chimed in: "I'll take my allies wherever I can find them."

and this about your 'good friend' Kirk Lyons:

'Kirk Lyons admits that his friend and client received military intelligence training at the Bundeswehr Academy in Hanover, Germany. According to Dennis Mahon, former Imperial Dragon of the Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan and a close friend and former roommate of Strassmeir at Elohim City, Strassmeir was a member of GSG-9, Germany's elite counter-terrorism unit.'

420 posted on 08/12/2006 10:50:48 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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