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.
I understand that the university is considering changing the song since the alumni have so much trouble remembering the lyrics.
Italian cornmeal mush. Best eaten fresh out of the pan, with some good cheese laid on top and a meaty stew poured over to melt the cheese into the mush. Zillions of calories, but real northern Italian comfort food. Seriously, the only possible difference with grits is the fineness of the grind, but that's debatable. A lot of fancy restaurants let the polenta set, then slice it and maybe fry or grill the pieces, but as my grandfather said, "That's what you do to the leftovers."
Polenta:
Sir attempts are underway experimenting with the following 'food' items:
Food items included:
congeled salad #1
weiner casserole
cheeze whiz sandwiches
grilled spam
spam whore dourves
[spam, velvetta cheese topped
with an olive]
boiled p'nuts
various packaged chips including:
store brand cheeze curls and refried grits
potato sticks
cajun peanuts
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Sir, a full written report will be on your desk in the morning with the results. Sir, I must state this is an order which is above the call of our normal Union duties. |
free dixie,sw
I'll know if you eat the Fried Okra and Boiled Peanuts. Ya'll come tah yur senses, an quit yur yankee notions. Say ya might wanna eat that with some boiled crawfish and wash it down witha cold beer.
it's a "city kitty", PRISSY, thing to call it something "fancy".
free dixie,sw
Union regulation #061865 clearly states you are only required to 'sample' such a 'food item', coupled with having your Union issued supply of TUMS on hand at all times.
Is there a qualified translator in the house?
Then there's always alligator sauce piquante and maque choux to feed them Yankees.
http://www.coonass.com/recipes.htm
I salute your attempts to find your inner-southerner. Add in an R.C. Cola and a Moon-Pie and pretty soon you'll be thinking that maybe Jeff Davis wasn't all that bad after all.
"The Southern Democrats refused to act as adults..."
Interesting choice of words. Sounds to me that there was more to this issue than JUST slavery!!!!!
I hear STAND perfers Boiled Crow.
Watch it or I shall command you to eat a grit, too. Don't mess with the Chief Yankee.
Ahem. He is asking you to rething your position and adopt the southron point of view.
My "Yankee-Dixie, Dixie-Yankee Dictionary" will soon be available on Amazon. $129.99 cheap.
Make that 'rethink'. Damn spellcheck should post what I mean, not what I say.
If you want to call the right to rebellion the more to the issue, go ahead.
I've never said the southern democrats didn't have the right to rebel or secede for the purposes of maintaining slavery, only that they knew they could not win that their arguments for slavery and secession in the public forum or on the floor of congress.
So they did not even try to.
Lincoln's brilliant political strategy was forcing the issue to a point where the Southern Democrats Cut their ties with the Government and ran home to create a new one. They were the original Cut and Run democrats, showing cowardise in the face of national opinion.
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