Posted on 08/16/2021 5:34:13 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Aug. 15.
It will be generally recollected that shortly after the election in 1856, the Tennessee papers gave accounts of a threatened insurrection among the slaves of a portion of the State, and that the insurrection was induced by the supposition, prevalent among the blacks, that FREMONT was coming up the river, backed by a large Army, for the purpose of liberating all the slaves. The exact details of the extent of this insurrectionary movement were never fully published; but it was known that many slaves were summarily tried and found guilty, some being executed and others sent further South. From well-authenticated sources, it is ascertained that the superstition of 1856 has been revived; that the presence of FREMONT at the head of the Western forces is already known to the negroes, and that his reappearance is hailed as a sure precursor of their liberation. This feeling has spread rapidly within the last month, and it is attracting great attention and exciting much alarm among the whites of those districts where there is a large proportion of slaves. My informant assures me that once the name of FREMONT is connected with any victory over the rebels, or that he is known to be in the State of Tennessee or Mississippi, the negroes will at once rise in rebellion. It is said that the fear of this danger, at their own thresholds induced the rebels to take the offensive in Missouri, and to keep the battle-field as far as possible from the eager and watching negroes.
The promptness with which the capitalists of the North have responded to the call of the Government for means, has infused new life into the Departments, and is the source of a general good feeling in the city.
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The Great Rebellion: Further Reports of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek – 2-3
A Day of Fasting and Prayer: Proclamation of President Lincoln – 3-4
Beauregard’s Promotion– 4
Mr. Russell’s Letters: Condition of Things in the Southern States – 4-7
Editorial: England and France – 7
The Battle of Bull Run – 7
Mr. Russell on the South – 7
Questionable – 7
Nine Presidents Who Screwed Up America, by Brion McClanahan
More rubbish from America-hating Southern Democrats.
Of course it is.
Empire building is the nation’s great obligation. Just ask any RINO.
Empire building is the nation’s great obligation. Just ask any RINO.
Not just the RINOs, I'm afraid. Many Freepers who seemed okay with Trump talking about ending the war in Afghanistan have now changed their tune now that Biden is actually doing it. My views have not changed with the regime: America has no business spending blood and treasure abroad when her own people and economy are suffering. When your unconstitutionally declared police action is older than some of the soldiers fighting it, you're doing something wrong.
The Times is still hoping to make it sound like a Union victory, and, just as at Bull Run, up to a certain point it was.
But then three things happened which turned it to a Confederate victory:
Sure, just like destroying the United States is every Democrat's obligation.
Just ask any of them.
I don't think Trump ever intended what we're seeing today.
It's not an orderly withdrawal, it's a 1975-Saigon-level rout, the details of which have not yet even begun to be explained.
I for one haven’t “changed my tune” - I supported Trump’s withdrawal because it made sense and he had a plan for an orderly withdrawal. Xiden OTOH abandoned his post in the dead of night.
Big difference.
It's not an orderly withdrawal, it's a 1975-Saigon-level rout, the details of which have not yet even begun to be explained.
And like Vietnam the war in Afghanistan amounts to pouring money and the lives of our men and women in uniform down a rat hole for an objective that will never be achieved. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"-Albert Einstein.
Judging from some of the letters and diary entries written this week, it seems that word of mouth is ahead of the newspapers. Like George Strong wrote yesterday, if this is victory then give us some defeats.
“And like Vietnam the war in Afghanistan amounts to pouring money and the lives of our men and women in uniform down a rat hole for an objective that will never be achieved.”
Soviet analysts said that the cost of the Vietnam War moved the collapse of the USSR forward by ten years.
Trying to protect the South Vietnamese from the bloodbath committed by the communists was worth doing.
Moving the collapse of the USSR forward by ten years was worth doing.
All other things being equal, opposing evil is the right thing to do.
Our boys did not die in vain. That is a leftwad lie.
Soviet analysts said that the cost of the Vietnam War moved the collapse of the USSR forward by ten years.
And the cost of the Afghanistan war likely moved the collapse of the USSA forward by 10 years. Every dollar spent in Afghanistan is a dollar not being spent in paying back our huge deficit, much of our debt being held by China, the real threat.
Did I give the impression that I approve of our course in Afghanistan?
My son is a Marine, and I don’t want the demonrats to get him killed because they are incompetent.
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