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Now, be sure to inform x that Chandler was one of many that put Lincoln into office. It was to the Republican party leaders, the radical abolitionists, and to the Banking community that he owed his party's existence.

Let me confess Doris, I get so confused sometimes. For years I have heard from the Lost Cause Out of Context Quote Brigade (c) that the sin of slavery should not be directed at Southerners since it was all those Damn Yankee Bankers who shoved slavery down the throats of those poor people in Dixie and it was those same damn Yankee bankers who really owned all those slaves and made all the money from those plantations while the Southern population were all dirt poor hard scrabble farmers without two pennies to rub together. I mean how many posters here have told us about the dozens of their "kin" who were raped and hanged by Sherman and not one of those kin ever owned a slave? They were all too poor for that, and unlike those damn Yankees, they all just loved their Negro brothers and sisters. Yet somehow, those same dirt poor farmers who didn't have two pennies to rub together paid all the tariffs on imported good that kept the Federal government afloat.

And now here you go telling us that it was really those Yankee Bankers (the same folks who owned all the slaves and owned all the plantations and cotton) who decided to team up with Evil Abe and the damn Yankee Abolitionists, and they schemed and plotted to destroy the plantations and free all the slaves and kill the dirt southern farmers who paid all those tariffs that kept the Federal government afloat.

I know things can be complex, but please. The next time you're down at the IHOP for the national League of the South Convention, would you guys huddle over a bowl of grits and get your story straight?