Posted on 12/01/2017 4:55:21 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
After what the Mormons pulled in 2016, maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea.
As I understand the procedure, the legs and arms of the Muslim are tied to the wheels with ropes long enough for his belly to be draped over the muzzle of the cannon. Of course the gun is charged before the Muslim is emplaced since the guns were muzzle loaders.
Most were probably Hindus.
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
The Lecompton Constitution was a joke written by a rump assembly that never reflected the view of a majority of Kansans. The fact that Buchanan backed it just reinforces my view that he was one of the worst Presidents in the history of America.
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
Buchanan ranks with Obama as Democrats whose intentions were to fundamentally "transform America" from our Founders' vision to one dictated by Democrat partisan goals of the time.
In 1857 those included Democrats' Lecompton constitution and the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, all but outlawing abolition.
Under Obama it was the Democrats' globalist socialist agenda.
After Buchanan, Republicans victory in 1860 drove Democrats insane, leading to Civil War.
After Obama, Republican victory in 2016 has again driven Democrats insane (admittedly a very short trip), though Civil War II still seems highly unlikely.
For one thing, today's Democrats are poor likenesses of their 1861 ancestors.
I posted a report on this book way back in March 2016 (reply #93). This is the first excerpt. In about 5 years these two down-and-outers will have some altogether different tales to swap.
Jean Edward Smith, Grant
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Okay, where’s the novel about Black Jake LeRoy and his gormless son Bob? I’ll bet it’s a page-turner!
Sounds (from George’s headache) like the Strongs had an enjoyable Christmas Eve. I used to have a silver mink cape - my father gave it to my mother around 1972 - but I never wore it, so I gave it to a friend in Tulsa who got out more. She has since moved to Houston, so I expect she gave it to her oldest daughter, who remained in Tulsa.
December 25, FRIDAY. Christmas night. Higby preached (at Trinity Chapel) a very fresh, genial, and touching sermon on the suggestive text “The young child and his mother,” the most eloquent and original thing I’ve heard from him for years.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Arguably the greatest and most important speech in American history.
Lincoln as prophet.
“It will become all one thing or all the other.”
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
It’s very apparent that George and Ellen’s was a love match. Good for them. They lived through some difficult times.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
In modern terms, sounds to me like Lincoln is here complaining to the supposedly Republican NY Tribune that their praises of Democrat Douglas may cause a certain number of Illinois RINO Republican Tribune readers to lose courage & flip sides.
Lincoln also wonders if the Washington DC establishment supports Douglas over genuine Republicans like, oh, say, Lincoln himself.
Remember, the very popular NY Tribune was said to be Republican leaning, but its founder, Horace Greeley, ran for President in 1872 as a Democrat against US Grant.
So New Yorkers, then as now, even when claiming to be Republicans were not always the real thing.
But Lincoln was.
Homer, do you happen to know if the draft on Post #33 is substantively different from the “House Divided” speech in 1858 (link below) which appears to be the final draft of the same speech?
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/house-divided-speech/
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