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To: dsc

Slavery is a crime against Freedom! Thank God, For Lincoln!

Get Real, The Civil War Is Over!


54 posted on 03/13/2010 5:02:20 PM PST by factmart
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To: factmart

“Slavery is a crime against Freedom!”

Yes, it is. And every other civilized nation that practiced it managed to end it without a war costing so many lives.

“Thank God, For Lincoln!”

Who was quite willing to allow the South to continue their practice of slavery if they would only give up the idea of seccession.

“Get Real, The Civil War Is Over!”

Get real, learn when exclamation points are appropriate, and learn some *real* history.

Just to get you started, here’s something from H. L. Mencken.

“The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination—that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”


63 posted on 03/16/2010 2:16:19 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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