Posted on 10/16/2018 6:41:01 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
Abolitionist John Brown, leading a force of about 20 men, captures the U.S. Government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA. By the 18th, most of Brown's men will be dead, He and a few others are captured by U.S. Marines under the command of LTCOL. R.E. Lee. Brown will be tried for treason by the state of Virginia and hanged.
“I don’t buy that. James Buchanan was President and while a Pennsylvanian he was friendly towards the South. His critics called him a “doughface”, a Northern politician sympathetic to the South.”
You are treating events before Brown’s failed revolution with the days after.
Does what I just wrote make any sense to you?
It’s a fine example of the Argument of the Beard, Continuum Fallacy, Heap Paradox.
“It’s a fine example of the Argument of the Beard, Continuum Fallacy, Heap Paradox.”
I don’t even know what you are talking about.
Then I missed the point you intended in your previous post.
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