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To: John Filson
Abraham Lincoln speaking about July 4TH<

We have besides these men---descended by blood from our ancestors---among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe---German, Irish, French and Scandinavian---men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things.

If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration [loud and long continued applause], and so they are.

125 posted on 07/04/2005 2:20:32 PM PDT by bayourod (Unless we get 40% of the Hispanic vote in 2008, President Hillary will take all your guns away.)
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To: bayourod

Your unsolicited and uncontextual quote of Lincoln aside, I seriously doubt your commitment to equality. If you truly believed in equality, you wouldn't show such an overwhelming desire to see foreigners entering this country at the expense of the current citizens. You wouldn't continue advocating foreign interests over American interests. In effect, you're prejudiced against native-born Americans. If you loved your fellow Americans, you'd change your tune. But you don't. Your political preferences simply reveal your preference for exploiting the unfortunate at the expense of the gullible. You're a whore for oppression, pure and simple.


128 posted on 07/04/2005 4:58:13 PM PDT by John Filson
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