Posted on 01/17/2015 2:31:16 PM PST by BigReb555
During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.
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I do know the difference. Now point to the clause of the Constitution that gives the president or anyone to call the court into session.
You brought it up all by yourself, I have no idea why.
Perhaps that's the sort of "reasoning" going on here, even though Lincoln was not female... LOL! :)
You might have something there!
I’ve been happily married for 32 years and I still don’t understand women! HA! B^)
I’m more interested in the mechanism by which a court rules on the question of secession. You don’t just ask the court to rule on an issue. There has to be a suit with a plaintiff. Who would be suing whom?
Good question. But if they truly believe that Lincoln could call the court into session at will then they probably believe that it could then just issue an advisory ruling.
I’m guessing that went right over his head.
As did 539 I think.
That one is a sleeper ;’)
taney could be relied upon to render a partisan decision no matter what limitations of the law.
Where Blacks are involved I agree. But if the question of secession had come before him then I don't know. He was on record as opposing it.
As did many southerners - until the rubber met the road.
Oh really. Tell me about the Scythians and Cimmerians. And don't cut and paste either. In one thousand or so letters, without looking it up. Who were they, where did they come from? I know you can't do that without doing a internet search. And most internet sites are severely wrong in who they were anyway. I know who they were, where they came from, etc, and it's a hell of a lot more important than an attempted murder on the floor of Congress. People study what they choose to spend the time it takes to wrap their minds around. The fact that you know this particular incident by heart tells me you've spent too much time studying things that are vain, and have ignored the important turning points in history. You didn't even know the south ruled the tariff issue for decades before the Civil War, and you live for this stuff.
I study military history. Am I crying over over 70-year-old spilt milk because I know the history of the Eastern Front in WWII, or the intricacies of the Battle of the Ardennes in 1944-45? Don't attempt to insult me because YOU can't remember history. It's not my problem, just as it would not be my problem if you couldn't read, write, or do maths.
Maths? When this life's carousel is done, I'll be proud of the history I chose to absorb, and you, you'll spend the rest of your life life chasing bitterness, fueling your bloodlust for people you don't have any idea about.
You walked into my wheelhouse, which is Civil War history, and started shooting your keyboard off.
Ahistoric.
You didn't even know the south ruled the tariff issue for decades before the Civil War, and you live for this stuff.
Obviously the South did NOT rule the tariff issue for decades before the Civil War.
I'll step up and say that I have no idea who the Cimmerians are, but I'm a follower of Free Republic's GGG posting list, FReeper SunkenCiv presiding.
The Scythians, former inhabitants of the vast Eastern Eurasian steppes, are constantly making the GGG news. :)
Scythian warriors show genetic blending between Europeans and Asians
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2962499/posts
Kazakh Archeologists Discover Ancient Scythian "Sun Lord"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2555535/posts
Kazakhstan archaeologists discover Saka princess tomb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3031165/posts
Big ancient Scythian drawings found in Altai Mountains (Russia)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491899/posts
Tiny Drone Reveals Ancient Royal Burial Sites [ Scythians ]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2790982/posts
Frozen Siberian Mummies Reveal A Lost Civilization
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2036465/posts
Ancient Mummy Opened: Scythian Cavalier Had Bone Disease
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034074/posts
And there's more. :)
Nice collection!
Not to jump into the conver, but the Cimmerians (the real ones, not Robert E Howard’s) traipsed on into Anatolia and leveled the Phrygian capital Gordion. The Scythians (I think it was) traipsed right on in behind them and leveled the Cimmerians. I think their only known act was the destruction of Gordion.
Smoothsailing, I guess we'll have to give DOODLE! a pass over her girlthink.
You've confused her with the term "ask", which in DOODLE!'s girlthink means "call the court into session at will".
smoothsailing wrote in post #535: You never know, the court may have come back if asked. But that's the point isn't it? We'll never know because Lincoln couldn't be bothered with asking.
DOODLE!'s translation, in her own mind (rockrr concurring): "You never know, the court may have would have had to come back if asked Lincoln called the court into session at will. But that's the point isn't it? We'll never know because Lincoln couldn't be bothered with asking calling the court into session at will."
Look at you, rockrr! Finally, something we agree on!
Taney was a sanctimonious, hypocritical lump of Obama.
Sorry about the "O" word, mods. It just slipped out...
Whenever I see "Cimmerian", I think Conan... :)
Hazarding a guess, my bet is that you feeeeeeeeel like you accomplished something with that post.
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