To: Ninian Dryhope
Honest Abe was a bit of a hypocrite...In a speech in congress in 1848, he was ranting that the "people" had a right to throw off the shackles of any government that became overbearing.
Yet when people spoke out against him during the Civil War he had them jailed.
Quoting Lincoln as a Saint always needs to be qualified.
25 posted on
12/20/2005 4:43:42 AM PST by
cynicom
To: cynicom
Civil War Actually...'War Between the States'
56 posted on
12/20/2005 12:38:46 PM PST by
shield
(The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions.Pr 1:7)
To: cynicom
"Quoting Lincoln as a Saint always needs to be qualified."
Never quoted Lincoln as a saint, but the quote I used was both apt and very true.
62 posted on
12/20/2005 3:10:29 PM PST by
Ninian Dryhope
("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
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