[Grand Old Partisan]

One of my favorite Civil War-era quotes is from the chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee in July 1861:

“If their whole country be made a desert, in order to save this Union, so let it be! There will be no bargaining, there will be no negotiations, there will be no truces with the rebels until every man shall have laid down his arms, disbanded his organization, submitted himself to the Government, and sued for mercy.”

Fierce, yes, but no more so than Abraham Lincoln’s resolve in his second inaugural address: “Yet, if God will that [the Civil War] continue, until all the wealth piled up by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with a sword, as it was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.”

Amen

[bk1000]

You don't have to humor me. You don't have to be an a$$ about it either. I'll be proud of my ancestors, who fought not only during the war of northern agression on the side of the CSA, but also in the American Revolution (yes, on the 'rebel' side then as well.) Spew on!

[GOPcapitalist]

One of my favorite Civil War-era quotes is from the chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee in July 1861: “If their whole country be made a desert, in order to save this Union, so let it be! There will be no bargaining, there will be no negotiations, there will be no truces with the rebels until every man shall have laid down his arms, disbanded his organization, submitted himself to the Government, and sued for mercy.”

Ah, yes. The vile Thaddeus Stevens. Now we know why you left off his name. I think it was one of his colleagues who remarked upon Stevens' death that the Republican party had finally been emancipated. Truer words were never spoken in that day.

So which anonymous sleazebag are you gonna quote next, Partisan? Ingersoll? Sumner? Blaine? I understand though - if those types were all I had, I wouldn't be very proud of displaying their names either.

Fierce, yes, but no more so than Abraham Lincoln’s resolve in his second inaugural address: “Yet, if God will that [the Civil War] continue, until all the wealth piled up by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with a sword, as it was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.”

So in other words, Lincoln was blaming God for his own war. I believe in saner circles that is known as blasphemy.

[Snerfling]

Yet, if God will that [the Civil War] continue, until all the wealth piled up by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk

Ya know, when you're standing there reading those words (and the Gettysburg on the other wall), the thought that always springs into my mind is that Lincoln personally wrote those words.

Even the best speech writers today don't come close.