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Rare Lincoln Letter Found in Allentown
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| July 19, 2006
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Posted on 07/26/2006 3:22:50 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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This 1861 letter from President Abraham Lincoln contains a request of support from the governor of Florida for a constitutional amendment on slavery.
John A. Lupton, associate director/editor of "The Papers of Abraham Lincoln", a project of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, looks over an 1861 letter from President Lincoln in the archives of the Lehigh County Historical Society Tuesday.
To: dixie1202; righthand man; TexConfederate1861; chesley; rustbucket; JamesP81; LeoWindhorse; ...
To: y'all
This would have been addressed to Gov. Perry.
Gov. Milton took office in office on October 7, 1861.
Lincoln's letter is dated March 16, 1861.
To: stainlessbanner
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07/26/2006 3:28:36 PM PDT
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Leatherneck_MT
(In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
To: derllak
another thing you might like to see.
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07/26/2006 3:29:04 PM PDT
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Leatherneck_MT
(In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
To: Leatherneck_MT
Interesting Lincoln refused to meet with Gov. Pickens (SC) delegation, but wrote a letter to Gov. Perry (FL).
Was Lincoln trying to negotiate or appear to make concessions?
Any statesman of the day would consider Florida a minor player to negotiate with, due to its smaller population.
To: stainlessbanner
The existance of these letters is well known as is their content, it only proves one thing, the deceit of the southern democrats. When they were offered all that they wanted, they still choose to rebel against the country.
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07/26/2006 3:38:38 PM PDT
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usmcobra
(If we take our political stance from a letter behind a name we lose sight of what is right and wrong)
To: stainlessbanner
"Any statesman of the day would consider Florida a minor player to negotiate with, due to its smaller population."
Unless you consider the fact that that would give the Army a 2 pronged approach into the Confederacy if and when his negotiations succeeded.
The South was already stretched thin to defend what they had across one border. Open another and you've got the makings of a quick disaster.
Especially being outnumbered what? 3 to 1?
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07/26/2006 3:39:37 PM PDT
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Leatherneck_MT
(In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
To: stainlessbanner
The fact these lettters were sent to ALL the nation's governors ruins any baseless theory or opinions you hold.
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posted on
07/26/2006 3:50:53 PM PDT
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usmcobra
(If we take our political stance from a letter behind a name we lose sight of what is right and wrong)
To: Leatherneck_MT
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posted on
07/26/2006 3:54:20 PM PDT
by
derllak
To: Leatherneck_MT
Good point, but were Union military planners on the ball that much in March 1861. I'm not that familiar with Cameron, but I know McDowell wasn't forward thinking, as he showed at 1st Manassas.
To: usmcobra
When they were offered all that they wanted, they still choose to rebel against the country. Could it be that once a party breaks the terms of a contract, as Washington did, it behooves the other party to remove himself from the transaction. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
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07/26/2006 4:01:23 PM PDT
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groanup
(The IRS violates the 1st, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments)
To: stainlessbanner
What was the exact date in 1861?
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07/26/2006 4:03:07 PM PDT
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groanup
(The IRS violates the 1st, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments)
To: stainlessbanner
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07/26/2006 4:04:25 PM PDT
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groanup
(The IRS violates the 1st, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments)
To: groanup
If the south was a company perhaps but not without legal recourse or attempting to reach some sort of solution in the court system.
Here Lincoln made an offer, the South's reaction, pull out, shoot first and hope that no one shoots back.
The Southern Democrats refused to act as adults.
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07/26/2006 4:29:24 PM PDT
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usmcobra
(If we take our political stance from a letter behind a name we lose sight of what is right and wrong)
To: usmcobra
what it actually illustrates, SCALAWAG, is that your "sainted lincoln", the TYRANT & WAR CRIMINAL, was a LIAR.
free dixie,sw
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07/26/2006 7:22:06 PM PDT
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stand watie
( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
To: usmcobra
Here Lincoln made an offer, the South's reaction, pull out, shoot first and hope that no one shoots back. First of all, according to the dates, the South had already pulled out. Secondly, the South shot first justifiably. Thirdly, why would the South hope that no one shoots back? Of course they shoot back. Or don't they in your world? PC world?
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07/26/2006 7:25:43 PM PDT
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groanup
(The IRS violates the 1st, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments)
To: groanup; stand watie
The South wanted a war, and these letters prove that Lincoln would have done anything even legalize slavery to prevent war.
somebody mumble something about Lincoln that they can't prove?
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07/26/2006 8:04:53 PM PDT
by
usmcobra
(If we take our political stance from a letter behind a name we lose sight of what is right and wrong)
To: stainlessbanner; Non-Sequitur
"
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."
Debunks the claim slavery was the root cause of the war.
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posted on
07/27/2006 3:16:44 AM PDT
by
azhenfud
(He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
To: azhenfud
Debunks the claim slavery was the root cause of the war. Lincon's own words time and again have debunked that claim, so far as the Union was concerned. For the South, what was there in the Corwin amndment to attract them? The amendment only protected where it existed, it did nothing to protect slavery being introduced into the territories. By the time it was introduced the southern states had already seceded and adopted a constitution that not only protected slavery where it existed but ensured that any future territories acquired would be slave and also protected slave imports to boot. So why in earth would they rejoin the Union and accept half a loaf?
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