Posted on 06/15/2010 12:04:20 PM PDT by winstonwolf33
yes and south at least parts of may still secede, what we see today is a part of that
well, considering that i wish south would have won, not that war. thanks
Who do you think our new masters would be? Russia? China? An Arab federation of some kind?
File under “same as it ever was”.
Just as ripping us apart would invariably make us more vulnerable to our enemies now, the same is (was) true of the United States in 1860. It is beyond foolish to ignore the sharks that circled and lurked and waited to see what who would be the first to succumb during the Civil War. And it even more idiotic to presuppose that a seceded south, having slunk away from its commitments and obligations, would find much in the way of forbearance in a very hostile world.
I lament the loss of so many citizens but thank God the union prevailed.
Another one who has difficulty with the English language. That of which there is little doubt is that Lincoln left his family to ride on on a train that he feared would be attacked. About the "unpleasantness" I, myself, cited a footnote that suggested that it might not have occurred.
ML/NJ
Your judgment isn't very good then. I read it in the original language. About those "ten commandments" see this!.
ML/NJ
Considering the quality of the people running the Confederacy and the principles behind the secessions, a strong case can be made that the South was the biggest winner when the Confederacy lost.
Just how willfully obtuse are you? It’s a metaphor. You don’t see the comparison between someone who glances at a Amazon preview of a book and announces that it has no footnotes because he didn’t see any and someone who glances at a Bible and announces that it has no commandments because they weren’t on the page he looked at?
But had the South won its rebellion then magically, miraculously all those deaths would suddenly have been worth it, right?
Lincoln feared he might be attacked, which is why he changed his travel plans. Long before Mrs. Lincoln and family left Pennsylvania, Lincoln had publicly appeared in Washington and his presence there was well known. Mrs. Lincoln and family were not in any danger...except from rebel sympathizers who might single her out and boobs who didn't get the news.
But while we're on the subject of scumbagness and husbands fleeing danger and leaving their families to their fate, still no comment on Jeff Davis and the fact that he used a female cloak to disguise himself so he could flee the Union soldiers while leaving his wife and children to their clutches? Or is that considered brave behavior in the southland?
It turns out your 'witness' was a known hoaxter who ended up in prison. Why should anything he wrote be believed, much less relied on for accuracy?
I think you mean analogy, but thanks for playing.
As for the footnotes, I went to look again at the pages Amazon reproduces. I think there are quite a few more pages there now than the last time I looked seven or eight years ago. I would note that if you look at the Amazon pages NOW for the first chapter, you wouldn't know there were any footnotes. You have to go to the pages at the end of the book which reproduce (some of) the notes. And at least as reproduced by Amazon these are a bit strange. E.g. there are notes for things on page 19, but on the reproduced page 19 there is no evidence that I see would indicate that there are endnotes.
ML/NJ
As for the style of the footnotes, that's a well established form for writers who are trying to emphasize a readable narrative and don't want to clutter up their pages with superscript numbers. Maybe you've never seen it before, but I can pull twenty books off my shelves right now that use a similar style.
I have and the conclusion I'm reaching is it's because they are unsubstantiated fabrications, at least as it concerns the NY Times.
So you think it might not have happened that Lincoln secretly got off a train that he thought might be attacked and let his family continue riding on that train?
ML/NJ
You still haven’t answered the question about Jeff Davis dressing up in women’s clothes and abandoning his family to the enemy.
When was I asked about this? And what does it have to do with "Honest Abe" if Jeff Davis was a scumbag too?
ML/NJ
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