Clyde Wilson at his best.
1 posted on
05/08/2015 12:45:45 PM PDT by
SeeSharp
To: SeeSharp
2 posted on
05/08/2015 12:55:16 PM PDT by
StoneWall Brigade
(And I will send fire on Magog- Ezkiel 39:6)
To: SeeSharp
the South ... Disagree at your own peril!
3 posted on
05/08/2015 1:11:23 PM PDT by
no-to-illegals
(Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
To: SeeSharp
5 posted on
05/08/2015 1:12:15 PM PDT by
no-to-illegals
(Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
To: SeeSharp
Daniel Boone did not go over the mountains as a representative or even with the permission of the Crown. Blame it all on Daniel?
6 posted on
05/08/2015 1:13:52 PM PDT by
no-to-illegals
(Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
To: SeeSharp
You know, I do not feel at all guilty about all that land that we evil Anglo-Americans stole from Mexico. Mexicans had had the land for some centuries and had not settled it enough to raise a good soccer team. When California was taken there were already more white men from the U.S. and Europe there than there had ever been Mexicans and such Mexicans as were there had little contact with or affection for Mexico City. And the Mexico that the U.S. went to war against in 1846 had a large and aggressive army led by a dictator who fancied himself a Napoleon and had made and in some cases carried out blood-curdling threats against the gringos. Indeed, then as now, Mexican national identity depended heavily on hatred of the people beyond the Rio del Norte Something many forget. It wasn't their land just because the Pope said so in 1495.
And for those in my family who left their parent's settlements on the Yadkin and went with Boone through the Gap, and those who descended from them or followed them, they always knew it was their land to settle and tame.
The trail doesn't end either.
Frontiers still exist, and the Americans are still pushing out into them.
9 posted on
05/08/2015 2:15:31 PM PDT by
Regulator
To: SeeSharp
I’ve had this bookmarked for a couple of months and just today finished reading parts and one and two.
Excellent analogies and enlightening observations!
11 posted on
07/04/2015 11:12:57 AM PDT by
Rebelbase
( NASCAR 2015: "Bootlegger to boot licker"--FReeper Crim)
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