To: 4ConservativeJustices
Yes, it does tell you something. The northerners who sided with the Confederates were all Democrats, and the southerners who sided with the United States Government (the blacks and the white Unionists) voted Republican as soon as they could.
88 posted on
07/23/2003 8:33:18 PM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: Grand Old Partisan
What it should tell you is that the positions advocated by the Radical Republicans were in the minority. Lincoln barely won re-election, and even then, only without the South voting against him, and the military preventing votes for anyone other than Lincoln. "Beast" Butler bragged about supressing the vote.
94 posted on
07/23/2003 8:46:07 PM PDT by
4CJ
(Dims, living proof that almost everywhere, villages are missing their idiot.)
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