1 posted on
06/16/2008 9:49:45 AM PDT by
Borges
To: Borges
I wonder if the Lost Cause Brigade will be along to tell us all how that speech is nothing less than a declaration of war against southern civilization.
2 posted on
06/16/2008 10:03:58 AM PDT by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: Borges
If only more emphasis was paid to this line in 2nd paragraph “the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction”.
In other words do not allow it to spread to new states and territories, contain it in the South, and it will eventually end on its own. And it would have too.
4 posted on
06/16/2008 10:37:04 AM PDT by
NavyCanDo
To: bamahead
5 posted on
06/16/2008 10:48:33 AM PDT by
bamahead
(Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
To: Borges
This country is 97% as divided as it was in 1861. Hold on tightly when the last 3% occurs.
6 posted on
06/16/2008 12:31:11 PM PDT by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: Pharmboy; indcons
7 posted on
06/16/2008 1:29:46 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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