Posted on 08/08/2010 3:04:04 AM PDT by GonzoII
Astride *Old Number Thirty,* one of the few horses whose acquaintance I've made that doesn't have a taste for apples.
It would have been real interesting to have travelled alongside him when he went to Texas circa late 1835-early 1836 to join in the fight for Texian Independence from Mexico.
He reportedly arrived after that war had already been won, but speedier transportation or a change of a few details of history by a few months might have offered us a very different perspective on Young Mr. Forrest.
I can only imagine...have been on vacation a week..I see I missed NeoYankee anti-semites approving of Grant’s abuse of Jews
Old thread. But after seeing this speech quoted so many times over the past few years and wondering about its authenticity, I decided check into sources from the period.
On another discussion board, someone mentioned that perhaps it was quoted in the Memphis Daily Appeal.
I checked the Library of Congress website and found that Forrest’s speech was quoted in the Memphis Daily Appeal on July 6, 1875. I have pasted a link below.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045160/1875-07-06/ed-1/seq-1/
For the record, I am not taking part in any debate about the proper legacy of Forrest — I just found the debates about the authenticity of this speech interesting. I thought the link was worth posting here because I have not seen a link to a digitized document from the period in question in other discussion threads covering this speech.
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