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2 posted on 03/04/2019 8:11:25 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

This was around the time the republicans called themselves “progressive” because of the first civil rights movement.


21 posted on 03/04/2019 8:29:46 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Red Badger

Counting backward, it looks like Lieutenant Grigsby was born in late 1811, which would have made him a mature man of 49 at the war’s outbreak.

I wonder what his service was like, considering most of the troopers would have been young enough to be his sons.


26 posted on 03/04/2019 8:38:10 AM PST by Nothingburger
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one of the first freepers.


33 posted on 03/04/2019 8:51:51 AM PST by CJ Wolf
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To: Red Badger

Actually, the ‘warning’ is far more true today, than it was in the early 1800’s - the antebellum Democrats could be described as the party of limited federal government, and strict constitutional construction...


39 posted on 03/04/2019 12:04:31 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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