“I think we did this one already.”
We did. Let’s don’t do another beat down of our northern friends tonight.
“I think we did this one already.” We did. Let’s don’t do another beat down of our northern friends tonight.
Beat down? Hardly. I follow these posts for the informational links they provide. Case in point is the mention by Walter Williams of Rep. Daniel E. Sickles suggesting an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting secession. He was later a Union General on the field at Gettysburg. “Several months earlier, Reps. Daniel E. Sickles of New York, Thomas B. Florence of Pennsylvania and Otis S. Ferry of Connecticut proposed a constitutional amendment to prohibit secession.” I recognized the name although I did not connect the Representative with the General. This led me to confirm Sickles the Rep. as being Sickles the General, which I suspected. One link with a brief biography of Sickles confirmed he was one in the same. This individual had a tawdry history to say the least and murdered the son of Francis Scott Key as a result of Key having a continuing affair with the wife of Sickles. Interesting in that Sickles was well known as being an adulterer. Sickles history also indicates he benefited from the corruption of Tammany Hall. The point of all this rhetoric being there was more at play in the personal and political lives of the parties involved prior to and during the “War of 1861” than we will know and I don’t believe for a New York minute the war hinged solely upon the issue of slavery; politics being what it was and continues to be. I have yet to investigate Reps. Florence and Ferry. The link below leads to the biography mentioned above.
http://www.sicklesatgettysburg.com/Sickles_Biography.html
Lastly, I find it interesting to have read two short essays from Williams and Sowell in the last few days and find opportunities to acquire knowledge from the information they present. Beat down? I say keep the informational links flowing for the betterment of all.