You may have a point.
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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he has the PRIME ones in his "personal basket"!
free dixie,sw
STAND You make this too easy for me, and I quote.....
let's say that i believe you to be a FRAUD/POSEUR, as you are either a DUNCE or NEVER served in the US military, as you don't KNOW the "jargon" & other information that US veterans have "inculcated into their souls" from basic training/boot camp/basic officer's course/etc.
i won't bet ANYTHING with you, as FRANKLY i think you are a DUNCE, a CREEP & a FOOL as well as a TURNCOAT/SCALAWAG.
i ONLY bet with people i TRUST & RESPECT. i must sadly tell you that this does NOT now include you, "snake in the grass".
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But wait there's still more...and again I quote you STAND.....
in other words, you were NEVER a MARINE & were in addition to being "Mr. 0000", a POSEUR & FRAUD, too?????
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you were mumbling something about catching me in a lie?
That I could not point out which posts of your's that you personally attacked my service to this country.....
It would seem like I just did once again.
You may have a point.
at this point, i'm UNSURE what i believe about you except that i feel you are just a little TROLL, who is here ONLY to cause "problems on the forum".
head over to DU & take "Mr SPIN" with you, as you dance out the door, hand in hand.
turncoats are WELCOMED with open arms on DU. there are NUMEROUS EX-FReepers from the "DAMNyankee coven" on DU, like Walt, illbay, cvn76, #3fan & a HOST of others. (note: NO "good 'ole rebs" are ON DU. that should tell readers "something of value" about "the two camps" on the WBTS threads.)
free dixie,sw
Was that your apology for the personal attacks on my service to this country?
Was that your humility at being proved wrong once again?
My problem with you is that you won't allow reasonable debate and discussion of the civil war between the adults here, and I'm not the only one you attack either, all anyone has to do is post an opinion that you don't like on the civil war and you'll attack them.
In fact I might just prove that by inviting anyone that wishes to do so, and has never done so, to post an opinion on how the south was wrong. I guarentee that in less then ten posts between you and whoever takes my challenge, you'll go irrational on them and start attacking them personally.
my problem with you is that you're ON freerepublic.com, period. also that you're a CRUDE, RUDE, little turkey, who seems to be a TROLL, rather than a CONSERVATIVE of any sort.
imVho, SCALAWAGS deserve ABUSE, just for breathing the same air as decent people. (NATURE is UNKIND to turncoats.)
like i said, head over to DU & take "Mr SPIN, the BIGOT" with you. you two will NOT be missed, even by the "unionists".
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You know what you can do with your irrational requests don't you?
By The way, have you noticed how your supporters have quit supporting you? I have.
soon, it LIKELY will ONLY be "Mr SPIN, the BIGOT". (frankly, based on the question from a "nice lady" in a PM, i can't think of a GOOD reason to be bothered with either of you.)
free dixie,sw
Then don't cruise these threads looking for a debate you won't participate in.
We're here to debate, not get personally attacked for our views by you. You're only here to shut down debate.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, you are everything I would be if I was trying to troll this website.
you are obviously here for only 2 reasons:
1. to cause problems/discord on FR &
2. to spread "fertilizer" & propaganda from the most extreme, lunatic fringe of REVISIONIST, LEFTIST academia.
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First off any republican that raises up the Democratic battle cry of "the south will rise again" and continually bashes President Lincoln as the worst president ever is no republican.
Secondly The confederate flag embodies everything the democrats stand for, racism, rebellion, hatred of republicans,Southern democrats, and of course the notion that if you can't debate run away.
surely you are a TROLL, rather than a FOOL.otoh, you COULD be BOTH.
free dixie,sw
Why don't you turn down the volume on your rhetoric a little bit, STAND?
If I were a troll, I'd come into this forum bashing Lincoln, claiming the south have hundreds of thousands of blacks fighting to maintain slavery, say that the southern democrats were only trying to save the country by dividing it, and tell everyone to read a book in a library that no one can find on how The Confederacy used a Pleasure boat to capture a German Submarine during the civil war.
If I were a troll, that is......
it's called showing RESPECT for AmerIndian culture & the beliefs of others.
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free dixie,sw
that way you wouldn't be too obvious as a TROLL.
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