Posted on 11/26/2005 9:36:29 PM PST by Mier
While all the anti war cowards were screaming for Bush to cut and run and our willing accomplice main stream media acting like kids in a candy store. I heard someone on talk radio say that during the civil war Lincoln had his media detracters thrown in the bottom of a war ship until the war was over. But I can't find any facts on-line to back it up. Does any one know where I might go to find information on this? I mentioned this to a (left wing co-worker) and he thinks I made it up. I sure would like to prove him wrong! Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.
So, must be a real great read, of fiction that is.
If I want fiction I can just read you posts, bad fiction at that.
But yes, it is an interesting book. Well documented. It doesn't pull any punches where Lane and his ilk are concerned, but also shows Anderson and Quantrill for the psychopaths that they were.
Aid and comfort to the enemy? That's one of the definitions of treason, isn't it? First amendment doesn't protect against criminal acts.
Perhaps you can point out where I praised the Unionists for murdering innocent civilians? It's you that justified those actions, not me.
That is where you are totally wrong, Yank. My ancestor who fought for the Confederacy FREED his slaves, because he felt slavery was wrong. My Texas ancestor was a cattleman & rancher, who didn't own any. I have always believed that it was wrong, but refuse to buy into the Yankee Propoganda line, that most slaves were mis-treated, because they WEREN'T. Think what you want, misguided as you are......
But I have. I am not trying to convince myself......
Would certainly be in character for Lincoln to have done JUST THAT! (NOT SARCASM)
I don't think there were any "Sescesh" in Lawrence....
So...you figure it out.
It was either wrong or it wasn't. As a very wise man from the period said, "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." No buts about it. Pretty it up all you want, talk about how slaves weren't beaten, how the masters were kind, and it still doesn't change the fact that ownership of other human beings was looked upon in the south as a good thing. It was, in fact, a bad thing regardless of what you think.
American bastile: A history of the illegal arrests and imprisonment of American citizens during the late Civil War by John Marshall
Not hard at all. In your eyes there were no innocent Unionists. All deserved to die. The fact that Quantrill shot down unarmed men and boys is OK to you, kept the rebel body count down.
Chief Justice Taney, a Democrat appointed by Andrew Jackson, wrote the opinion of the Court in Dred Scott.
Shall we discuss Jim Lane & his "Redlegs" and the people HE
massacred?!
Quantrill and Bill Anderson were terrorists, so was John Brown.
John Wilkes Booth was a stage celebrity.
Everything old is new again.
By the standards of the day, slavery was not looked upon as evil. I have always said it was wrong. But the fact that it was wrong also doesn't change the fact that most Southerners treated their slaves well.
If you like. The difference is that I don't try and justify his actions while you approve of Quantrill's and Anderson's.
No, you said it was wrong but... In other words it wasn't all THAT bad in your eyes.
Everything is not always an absolute.....Try a philosophy course.
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