[WhiskeyPapa]

In this regard I believe the Gettysburg Address was mostly sophistry. As H.L. Mencken once wrote, “it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense.”

Mencken's father was an officer in the rebel army. I think we can discount his opinion.

Walt

[VMI70]

"Mencken's father was an officer in the rebel army. I think we can discount his opinion."

Oh, so being an officer, or enlisted man for that matter, in the Confederate Army, means that their opinions, on their face, should be discounted?
Interesting, not to mention open minded.