STAND at an early age.
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.
Like I would ever listen to a Yankee, chief or otherwise....
Unlike some southerners that pretend to be what they aren't (Hi STAND) and eat accorcingly, I'd rather eat cayenne peppers off the bush then a bowl of grits smothered in butter and sugar off the stove.
Some would say this is how I got my red hot wit and acid tongue, but I just love cayenne peppers, they keep me regular.
sometimes what "comes out of the fingers" is NOT what is in the mind. we're getting old i guess???
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STAND at an early age.
it's a "city kitty", PRISSY, thing to call it something "fancy".
I see. So only southerners count as "real people" in your book. I think you've just outed yourself as a clinical sociopath, Watie. What a surprise.
Maybe for some, polenta is a way to be fancy, but since I'm from a northern Italian family (from a little place way up in the Italian alps near Switzerland), I grew up on polenta (and the word polenta) and never saw it on a fancy restaurant menu until I was in my 30s. I also grew up on bagna cauda, spingiuni, cappelletti, and a whole lot more good eating you've probably never heard of.
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Well, we could always feed them rattlesnake chili. That'll teach them not to mess with Texas.
However, Mr. Kansas will probably respond by offering us mountain oysters. If so, he wins.
Should that not be "...feed those Yankees."
Progress has been achieved since "damn" did not precede "Yankees" :)
Chief Yankee, at that price, will your soon to be released "Yankee-Dixie, Dixie-Yankee Dictionary" will be bound in the finest leather, along with being personally autographed in gold leaf ink, coupled with a real grit on the dust cover?
Nope. Down here it's either "them Yankees" or "damnyankees." I took the polite form.
snake", once more (SIGH) you base premises are FALSE & filled with REVISIONIST bilge, thus your comments are also both FALSE & SILLY.
I not sure exactly what's "false and silly" about any of the following;
"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!!!!!"
What I do know is that an ad hominem argument means somebody somewhere has run out of ideas or reache dthe end of their logic rope.....
DAMNyankees are generally STUPID, hate-filled,BIGOTED, arrogant, sanctimonious,hypocritical & most of all (THANKFULLY) a SMALL minority (10-15%) of northerners.
LOTS of "yankees" are friends of mine. i am PLEASED to say i have NO DAMNyankees as friends.
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otoh, LITLLE that he posts is TRUTHFUL.
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Now I would never say that about STAND's argument, it would give him more credit then he is due.
but since you are a SCALAWAG/dixie turncoat, we won't hold our collective breath until that happens.
fwiw, NO true southerner has any respect for scalawags. period. end of story.
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You lost an argument you might have won when you started making personal attacks on my service to this country, as well as the continued personal attacks on my southern heritage.
I on the other hand have used your ignorance of southern history, monuments and artifacts to prove you know nothing about things you have lied about.
I can logically prove any argument I make and you can do nothing to disprove it except to make personal attacks on my credibility.
point out to me in WHICH post(s) i attacked you for serving in the armed services. i DARE you!
your "southern heritage", such as it may be, is something that you've evidently turned your back on as you post ONLY south-HATING, REVISIONIST nonsense on this forum.
all you have proved, to the satisfaction of every FAIR-minded person here , is that you are a HATER & VERY likely a TROLL.
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