Rare Lincoln Letter Found in Allentown

AP ^ | July 19, 2006 | AP

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ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - July 19, 2006 - A University of Illinois researcher had discovered a fourth copy of a rare letter Abraham Lincoln had written by to the nation's governors in 1861.

The letter John Lupton found Tuesday in the Lehigh County Historical Society's holdings was one Lincoln wrote as part of an unsuccessful ratification process for a constitutional amendment Congress adopted during the term of his predecessor, President James Buchanan, that would have made slavery the law of the land.

The president remembered for abolishing slavery had been willing to push the amendment as "kind of a carrot to the Southern states" if that would preserve the union, said Lupton, associate director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.

"But even by that point, it was too late. By that time, the Southern states felt Lincoln's election was an affront," Lupton said. In fact, the letter discovered in Allentown was addressed to "His Excellency the Governor of the State of Florida," which had seceded from the union two months earlier.

Until Tuesday, only three of the letters were known to have survived. "It's a very cool document," Lupton said.

Joseph Garrera, the historical society director, said he will consult with the society's board to determine the best way to display the document and try to figure out exactly who donated the letter.

[stand watie]

inasmuch as George Wallace ran as the MODERATE (READ: LIBERAL) DIMocRAT in 1948, i'd say that you know LESS than ZILCH about AL politics.

after he lost that election, he said" "Nobody will ever out-N@gger me again".

furthermore, GW virtually ALWAYS got a MAJORITY of the AL Black vote. (didn't know THAT, did you???)

and JFK was "up to his ears in" the "schoolhouse door" incident. it was STAGED for the TV cameras & to FOOL ignorant, naive, people.====> were YOU FOOLED????)

lol AT you!

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[M. Espinola]

Semper Fi Marine!

[stand watie]

as usual, you are just posting HATE-filled, REVISIONIST,ignorant, LIES, FOOLishness & BILGE, SCALAWAG!

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[stand watie]

actually, the VAST MAJORITY of FLAGS at EVERY KKK rally is the flag of the USA!!!

did you know that??? IF SO, what have YOU done to stop THAT practice???? NOTHING?? i thought NOT! (pardon me for pointing out the obvious, but you, like MOST here, do NOTHING but talk,talk, talk & complain. it is your NATURE!)

we southrons DESPISE the KKK-idiots and would STOP the desecration of ALL flags, IF the COURTS would allow it.

the FEDERAL COURTS have CONSTANTLY thrown every case we descendants filed out of court, as they say that we southerners HAVE NO STANDING to sue to protect the flag.

if WE descendants of CSA hero-martyrs do NOT have STANDING to protect our sacred battleflag, under which so many southerners bled/died, what LIVING person DOES have standing???

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[stand watie]

and YOU will, once more, make the rest of the "DAMNyankee coven" hide their faces in shame, as you HUMILATE them. lol AT you, BIGOT!

PLEASE continue posting your STUPID RANTS as you serve the TRUE CAUSE by illustrating just how STUPID, ignorant, hypocritical & filled with UNthinking BIGOTRY, that the LUNATIC fringe of DAMnyankees demonstrably are!

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[stand watie]

i see that you are back to posting your usual STUPID cartoons, pictures & IGNORANCE!

lol AT you.

don't you get tired of being the BUTT of most of the inside jokes about STUPID PEOPLE on FR???

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[usmcobra]

Come on STAND can you get any one to post a news story for you that proves your outrageous claims of suing the Klan to prevent them from using the Confederate Flag?

[stand watie]

come on "snake" can't you FIND them OR don't you want to admit that you are just a DUNCE, a BIGOT & a purveyor of LIES!

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[usmcobra]

I'm not the one making that claim, what I claim I can prove, what you claim, no one can prove.

Even you little buddies won't have your back on this one, they've abandoned you to our devices.

[MikefromOhio]

if WE descendants of CSA hero-martyrs

I remember someone in Iraq saying the EXACT same thing in his rhetoric....hmmmm what was his name again? Zarqawi? Something like that.....

[M. Espinola]

To you a "bigot" is anyone no in full accord with lunatic fantasies of carving America in two, one existing in a neo-confederate 1860's dream world of perpetual rebellion and hate - your world, Norman. That truly is your depraved obsession.

It's time for your weekly distemper shot.

[M. Espinola]

Old Stand just described himself perfectly - once again.

"just a DUNCE, a BIGOT & a purveyor of LIES!"

[mac_truck]

...Wallace ran as the MODERATE (READ: LIBERAL) DIMocRAT in 1948,

That's right, and if you look back what I said was that the Confederate Flag was first politicized by the segragationist State's Rights Party in 1948 and then by Wallace in the 1960s... #349

after he lost that election, he said" "Nobody will ever out-N@gger me again".

That's right STAND. Being a political opportunist he then embraced the segragationists and adopted their political positions...and symbols.

GW virtually ALWAYS got a MAJORITY of the AL Black vote.

Well I'm pretty sure the Rice family never voted for him...

JFK was "up to his ears in" the "schoolhouse door" incident. it was STAGED for the TV cameras

in 1963 the Alabama National Guard was federalized to ensure that two black students who enrolled at the University of Alabama were allowed to attend. JFK did NOT force Wallace to make good on a campaign pledge to stand in the doorway of the school to block their admittance, nor did JFK write the speech Wallace gave for the TV cameras before standing aside and allowing the two black students to enter.

Finally to remove any doubt you might have about the casual relationship btween George Wallace, the Confederate flag, and segragation here is a portion of the Inaugeration speech he gave six months prior on the steps of the statehouse in Montgomery

"Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history. Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny . . . and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever." -Jan 14, 1963

[stand watie]

i note that you're still a DUMB-bunny, who can't figure out that i won't do "homework",just so that YOU can say, "that's not a good source".

fwiw, you fool NOBODY! we are ALL on to your game.

you might go check out "Nolu Chan's" old posts as he actually placed case cites for ALL the state/federal cases on CSA flag protection on the forum.

but of course, you do NOT want to KNOW the TRUTH. you just want to be HATEFUL.

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[stand watie]

# 371 is spoken like the FOOL & HATER that you demonstrably are!

don't you get tired of being RIDICULED as a FOOL and/or a HATER/BIGOT????

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[stand watie]

like i said, GW & JFK were "up to their eyes" into a PLAN to FOOL the NAIVE & ignorant, by making a "spectacle" for the TV cameras.

based on your posts, i'd say that they succeeded in fooling YOU.

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[stand watie]

lol AT you, FOOL!

don't you ever get tired of being laughed at & ridiculed as a BIGOT & a FOOL, 1st Class??? (fwiw, that is NOT thunder you hear. rather, it is SMART FReepers laughing AT you.)

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[mac_truck]

[SW post 361 ] JFK was "up to his ears in" the "schoolhouse door" incident. it was STAGED for the TV cameras & to FOOL ignorant, naive, people

[SW post 377 ] like i said, GW & JFK were "up to their eyes" into a PLAN to FOOL the NAIVE & ignorant, by making a "spectacle" for the TV cameras.

So now George Wallace AND JFK were in cahoots to fool the niave people? Were there any other notables in on this conspiracy to fool the American people? Did JFK help Wallace write his inaugural speech that year as well?

[stand watie]

i do NOT know the answer to that one, however the national TV networks were IN on "the scam"! (in fact, they "shot" the "schoolhouse door scene" at least 4 times that day, to get the BEST angles!)

it's called LYING to the viewers & selling soap!

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