THE LORD ACTON - GENERAL LEE CORRESPONDENCE

historical archives ^ | 1866 | Acto & Lee

[one2many]

Thank you.

The existence of the Hartford Convention puts the lie to everything that a number of the "leading lights" at FR have to say!

[Non-Sequitur]

Hartford Convention bump!!

Here is a link to the resolution issued by the Hartford convention. Where are the threats?

[Cvengr]

There is another series of letters and correspondance between Lord Acton and Queen Elizabeth (I) circa 1650 I believe, but a different Lord Acton which very well documents the original founding father's interpretation and meaning of the Separation of Church and State. Stored in Cambridge and published Cambridge Press, I believe. A very good read if anybody can find it and post it. I've looked for 2 years and haven't refound it.

[billbears]

LOL. You still refuse to see the threat in the last paragraph. I'm telling you Non, that next meeting was not to discuss the drapes!! It was put there to appease the northern secessionists. If the war had not ended when it did, we would have been rid of the yankees 50 years prior

[Non-Sequitur]

I'm telling you Non, that next meeting was not to discuss the drapes!!

But you don't know what would have happened, do you? What threats, if any, would have been made. And even if secession had been proposed what form it would have taken. It may have been proposed with the consent of the states. And it may have been opposed by the southern states as well. You are just speculating.

[dano1]

Who then is responsible for the war? Although the South would have preferred any honorable compromise to the fratricidal war which has taken place.

Can anyone point me to historical evidence that the South was willing to compromise rather than taking up arms? It seems to me that Lincoln was abundantly clear that he did not intend to interfere with slavery in the slave states, and even insofar as necessary to abide by the Dred Scot decision, which it seems to me effectively extended the institution of slavery to the territories. What Lincoln repeated said, in effect, was that he would prefer to contain slavery so as to set it "on a path to eventual extinction". However it seems like the path to eventually extinction had no timetable, and that if the slave states would have not taken up arms, under Lincolns approach slavery might has lasted another 100 years. So, please enlighten me, what evidence is there that the slave states had worked for "any honorable compromise" as General Lee asserts?

[one2many]

Your answers are in Gred Durand's book, America's Caesar, which is online here.

[agrandis]

Good post!