You might improve those typing skills if you would remove the flag of defeated pro-slavery aggression - off the keyboard. Get a normal bedspread too.
Posted on 07/26/2006 3:22:50 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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.
free dixie,sw
imVho, BOTH flags are of great enough stature to withstand the MISUSE by ALL the lunatics & HATERS, no matter what sort of idiot they may be. (nonetheless i DESPISE those who misuse EITHER flag.)
also, let me ask you the same question i asked "mike from ohio", what have YOU done to protect the FLAG(s) from the likes of the KKK-idiots & Neo-NAZI creeps?? (NOTHING/zilch/nada??? am i correct??)
free dixie,sw
No for two reasons.
The American flag is available for all Americans to use, even KKK-cretins. Their freedom of assembly is protected, as is their freedom to utter their racist message. That's America, and the Stars & Stripes is not sullied by representing those freedoms, even for avowed racists.
But the KKK-cretins are NOT elected officials, they do NOT preside over the courthouse or the statehouse, and they to NOT operate a state police force or justice department. In short, they are private citizens who are engaging in protected (albeit racist) activities.
There is a vast difference between a private group of racists and the government of a state when it comes to the use of such symbols and their INDELIBLE effect on the populace.
care to try again???
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if we were to accept your answer as factual/complete, one would presume WRONGLY that the US Flag would have been "indelibly stained".
free dixie,sw
i do NOT blame you in the least for bailing out, prior to you getting covered with the bigotry of the other participants on your side.
free dixie,sw
i do NOT blame you in the least for exiting that company, before you got something "unpleasant on your shoes" & ended up being "tarred with the same brush" as he indelibly IS.
free dixie,sw
"NUMBER ONE lunatic, fool, lunatic, LOUDmouth & BIGOT of the form."
Your rapidly escalating keyboard incoherency proves once again your chronic, raging, blind hate has indeed pushed you right off the deep end. Seek out proper medical care - but then again it's probably a 'lost cause'.
You might improve those typing skills if you would remove the flag of defeated pro-slavery aggression - off the keyboard. Get a normal bedspread too.
More brazen neo-confedetate disinformation.
I see that Darla is still posting her usual lies...and that stand is still lapping it up like a parched puppy.
free dixie,sw
back to posting more DUMB cartoons, eh??
more FOOL, you.
lol AT you.
free dixie,sw
as usual, FOOL, you "know NOT & know NOT that you know NOT".
don't you get tired of being RIDICULED as a LUNATIC/idiot/BIGOT???
free dixie,sw
Indelible effect on the populace? My goodness.
The federal leviathan has lots of powers, but I don't see anything in the Constitution that prohibits a state from flying the CBF by itself or as part of their state flag, however wise or unwise you might consider it.
You might not like it, and the New York Times and NAACP certainly don't. The Times uses it to demonize the South and try to split it from the rest of the Republican base. The NAACP uses it to rally their own supporters and keep them offended and voting together as a block.
If you live in a state that flies the flag, you certainly have the right to vote against the politicians that use it. Even if the flag is only flying on a monument to Confederate soldiers, the ancestors of many people of that state.
Perhaps you are simply opposed to letting the people of another state decide what they want even if what they do doesn't violate the Constitution. Are you a descendant of Thaddeus Stevens perhaps?
free dixie,sw
Does he own a copy of "Yachts Against Subs"?
Wow. Tom sounds just like you. Weird, huh?
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