Posted on 05/27/2014 2:17:51 AM PDT by markomalley
The Civil War, wasn’t.
It was the second war for independence, and it failed.
I wish I could run into this dope just so I could laugh in her face.
I was born in Madison & raised in Middleton.
My brother doesn’t understand why I don’t want to move back there.
The recently formed Republicans Party (Anti-Slavery) won the majority in both houses of Congress and the Presidency in 1860 after huge gains in the 1856 election. All Republicans were from states other than those that became part of the Confederacy. The South chose to secede believing the Radical Republicans would strangle their states rights, economic (e.g., tariffs) and socially (right to hold slaves) leaving the Abolitionists (and a somewhat more conservative Lincoln) in control of the government. Almost immediately Lincoln and the Radical Republicans (majority) embarked upon emancipation legislation and continued it throughout the Civil War and thereafter. The Radical Republicans did not loose control of the Congress and Presidency for decades, except for a short time when Andrew Johnson succeed Lincoln.
During the 1864 presidential election Lincoln received a majority of the military vote, though the aggregate numbers were not great.
You forgot the ‘grill’ in their mouth, and their tattoos.
Well, you could always go to a lecture, and then laugh out loud at her comments.
If the North had fought the Civil War to free slaves it would have been a just war.
...and if the Confederates hadn’t shelled Fort Sumter, providing Lincoln with the very spark he needed to mobilize for war, how different might things have turned out...
...when examining war, look to see who struck the first actual blow...
That was a dumb move.
I used to wonder how entire nations could apparently go collectively insane, always with catastrophic consequences for that nation and others around it.
Today I am watching it happen.
Any teacher who by design attempts to make children resent their skin color is a BIGOT and should be banned from the profession.
Maybe Christianity works so well because... its core assertions are TRUE????
But be prepared to explain what qualifies as an "actual" blow. If you're taking aimed fire, then you might safely suspect that there is some reasoning behind it.
In this case, the lead-up was the actions of Major Anderson in spiking the guns of Fort Moultrie and then moving his command to Fort Sumter, where he could cut off the ship channel into Charleston. When Lincoln moved to resupply rather than withdraw him, that maybe wasn't an "actual" blow, but it was definitely a threat.
Lincoln was a lawyer, and he knew how to gain the upper hand in the eyes of a jury.
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