[BroJoeK]

"Resolved, That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war,

during which, under the pretense of a military necessity of war-power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part,

and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty,

and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view of an ultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States."

Yours is one of the more amazing posts I've seen.

Those people never change, do they?

"Let's STOP THE WAR, NOW.
Let's call a peace conference.
Let's NEGOTIATE a settlement peacefully.
Instead of war-war, let's talk-talk.

Of course, the South would no more agree to rejoin the Union than we would agree to rejoin Great Britain.

[beebuster2000]

absolutely staggering that the dem platform of 1864 is almost word for word in use today.

lincoln? lincoln who?

and oh yes, the civil war, we spent way too much on that, didnt we?

/sarcasm