To: Homer_J_Simpson
2 posted on
11/03/2020 5:21:33 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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11/03/2020 5:24:13 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Last bit:
>Dolbear Commercial College of New Orleans
>”N.B. No fanatic who thinks it right to steal, rob and murder, need apply.”
The editor makes light of this employment condition.
But it is obviously a reference to abolitionists who were coming south on pretenses to free slaves by force.
This activity, and the failure of the federal government to prevent it, was listed as a primary grievance in most declarations of secession.
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