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To: Leaning Right

Finish what Abraham Lincoln started and wanted.

Free the slaves - check.

Return them to Africa - still waiting.


74 posted on 06/05/2011 10:11:38 PM PDT by anonsquared
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To: anonsquared
Finish what Abraham Lincoln started and wanted. Free the slaves - check. Return them to Africa - still waiting.

Actually, he had in the back of his mind pulling together about a million ex-slaves and sending them down to build the Panama Canal. He had Gen. Dan Sickles down there talking to the government in Bogota and leading men in the country as well.

Mind you, this was before Walter Reed and his conquest of yellowjack.

Sickles' files of correspondence and reports back to Washington existed, but it's been gone through and cleaned out.

100 posted on 06/06/2011 12:06:05 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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