[Ohioan]

What you are saying is that your folk were rebels in Indiana. You really have a lot of gall, passing judgment on other peoples.

By the way. We would have arrested your kin in Cincinnati, and put them on trial. In Cleveland, there were enough people who approved the lawless style you apparently celebrate, that they might have been more tolerated.

But again, you really, really have a lot of gall, criticizing the Southern ancestry, with the sort of family history, you describe! Perhaps you should read what Senator Daniel Webster, a lifelong foe of slavery, as well as any effort to dismantle the Federal Union, had to say about the sort of activity you celebrate: Webster.

William Flax

[muawiyah]

There were, no doubt, Copperheads all over the place, and to the degree they might have controlled the Congress and even the legislature of a Northern state, that is to our shame.

The way I look at it my people were merely trying to set right the evils done to America by European slave runners.

That's hardly an act of rebellion.