[Paul C. Jesup]

Actually most of them, like me, consider Sherman the real monster and Abe a close second.

[quidnunc]

Paul C. Jesup wrote: Actually most of them, like me, consider Sherman the real monster and Abe a close second.

Yep, Ol'Abe and Billy Sherman really showed them rebs where the bear did his business in the buckwheat, didn't they?

[quidnunc]

“Both Arabdom and the Old South are remnants of once great civilizations with flaws that doomed them to defeat. The blinder partisans of each look back with a nostalgia that clouds their vision. Their love for an imagined past that is now beyond re-creating prevents them from seizing the present, and fashioning the future. They prefer their imaginary world of slogans and fixations, though it is only imaginary, to the possibilities of a new start in reality — because reality requires compromise.” – “The Arab Tragedy: A mistake becomes a tradition”, (The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial, July 18, 2000)

[donmeaker]

The monster was named "Davis" and his chief henchman was named "Lee". At least Varina came to realize the error of his ways.

Grant: " Let us have peace."