Posted on 05/24/2007 6:03:30 AM PDT by Rebeleye
(Yawn)
By the way, Nonsensical, have you found out how the 'Law of Nations' thingy fell into the Constitution yet?
So, nothing but documentation counts in your view of history? Personal diaries, speeches, newspaper accounts, letters, memoirs, etc. are all discounted?
oops, should read “legal documentation.”
In my view of history, no. But history and legal fact are two very different animals.
The former is based on perception, while the latter is based in law.
"When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
– Thomas Jefferson
That’s an interesting view of the world. Not the one I would adopt, but interesting.
You do post like a true thinker from the North.
Just as Abe intended they should.
LOL -- the hopeful note in your tone is actually funny. Oh, to get LG banned as an anti-WASP racist, LOL! Welladay!
Whatever is in the water in easternmost England made those folks a bunch of sourpuss pushypants, and they brought it with them to the New World, to the detriment and manifest injury of the New World.
You've come late to the altar of federalism. We haven't practiced it since 1861.
The Fourteenth Amendment that you were just purring about to that other poster, remember? Or do you need me to repost your encomiums for you? I shouldn't think you need the help, though; you aren't as conveniently and obdurately forgetful as some of your allies.
Posting things to N-S will do you no good. He just ignores them and posts his theses to newbies de novo.
You need to ping N-S when you call him out; he's still just this side of dispensing with the courtesy pings.
If the South rises again, I’m cashing in my bonds. I’ve got a couple of confederate states bonds that I picked up years ago at a Civil War show. They look purty hangin’ on the wall, but they’re worth millions in the event.
Mark Neely wrote two books to "prove" that thesis, but omitted consideration from the fact that the Confederacy was set upon in its cradle and was fighting for its life against a much more powerful adversary from birth. Exigency and extremity lay much more heavily upon the Confederate cause than on the Union one; in many parts of the North, the casualty lists were the only sign of warfare -- other than the great prosperity attendant on Lincoln's deficit spending and spread around through contracts, payrolls, and the recruitment-bounty program.
[Truth in advocacy: two of my own family members, great-great-uncles on my father's maternal side, accepted the bounties to stand in for draftees -- then disappeared and evaded the military police. They were serious drunkards and wouldn't have been much use to the Indiana regiments campaigning with Rosecrans; the limits of their usefulness were pretty much reached when they occasionally took the poet James Whitcomb Riley home in a wheelbarrow from one of their hotel bar drinking sessions.]
So do I.
At the risk of putting you completely to sleep, no.
And at the risk of putting me completely to sleep, how about enlightening us?
And based on their general lack of accuracy, you post like a true son of the South.
I was wondering when you were going to haul out the "We wuz so stoopid we done fell into Linkum's trap" defense.
Now it's the "Screw the constitution, we've got a war to fight" defense.
And Neely did a very good job of demonstrating the excesses that occured under Lincoln and the even worse ones that occured under Davis. But once again we see the Southron hypocisy at it's best. Tyranny under Lincoln? Baaaad! Eeeeevil! Tyranny under Davis? Hey, what's the big deal?
Very small quibble:
The Puerto Rican flag is an American flag.
As is that of Michigan, or Maryland.
Other than that, I’m right there with you.
The Confederate Flag (battle or otherwise) is, to this northerner, also an American flag.
Why? Many posters here have already tried to 'enlighten' you to no avail.
Do your own homework. I'll even be nice and get you started:
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