[BroJoeK]

Thanks for the link!
It is easy to read and copy:

"If we translate these communications into plain English, they seem to amount to this, -- that, in order to preserve the institution of Slavery, the United States are bound to renounce the freedom of the platform, the assembly, the pulpit, and the newspaper.
In the South we all know freedom of discussion on the subject of Slavery has long been prohibited under penalties, amounting in many instances to death, preceded by torture; and we are now told, on the authority of the President of the United States, that the Union cannot be preserved unless the North not merely abstains from active interference with the domestic institutions of the South, but imposes upon itself an eternal silence on the subject.
It is a significant symptom of the true nature of Slavery that it draws after it, by the admission of its warmest advocates the prescription of that freedom of tongue and pen which we are in the habit of connecting with popular sovereignty, and seeks to establish in the midst of democracy a censorship on what is written and an espionage on what is spoken, for fear that the very echo of free discussion should generate in the minds of bondsmen "vague notions of freedom." "

Seems to me, if we just change the word "slavery" to any or all of, "woke", "progressive", "politically correct", "Big Tech control" or even "Democrats". we have a pretty good description of the political descendants of 1860 secessionists.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Let me know if you would like links to any of the articles you see. Say what you will about the NYT, their archives are quite accessible.

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Helen Viola Jackson died last month at the age of 101. She was the last known widow of a Civil War veteran. At 17, in 1936, she married James Bolin, the 93 year old veteran she was caring for. He couldn't pay her, but she inherited his pension. Such marriages were not unknown in the South, but Bolin was a Union veteran from Missouri. Bolin died three years later, but Jackson didn't make the marriage public or apply for his pension. She was afraid for her reputation and didn't want his children to resent her.

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