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Old times not forgotten: Civil War at 150
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| CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN
Posted on 04/02/2011 7:53:41 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
This month’s Smithsonian Magazine has an excellent cover article about the attack on Fort Sumpter that set off the Civil War. Great read...
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posted on
04/02/2011 7:59:11 AM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts!!)
To: JoeProBono
Quotes of Jefferson Davis
“The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a ‘rebellion’ is a gross abuse of language.”
“Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .”
“Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.”
“The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.” Jefferson Davis, address to the Mississippi legislature - 16 years after the wars end.
“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:01:03 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: JoeProBono
In before the Southern hating Anti-Free Republic Federal Bootlicks.
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:02:10 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: JoeProBono
"He attacked his own people. His own people. "And he showed them no mercy by sending his well-armed troops to crush them. He refused to listen to the pleas of foreign leaders who begged him to stop the relentless attacks against his people. And still, he kept killing these people. His own people.
"I'm talking about Abraham Lincoln, of course."
Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698676/posts
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:06:00 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: JoeProBono
Even though Robert E Lee didn't really make his historical debut until after the first battle of Manasses HE was the STAR of the “War To Protect The South From Evil War Criminals Like Sherman And Sheridan Who Raped Murdered And Burned The Innocent Land Across The South.”
I sometimes wish Lee had done to Pennsylvania what those monsters did to the South but then I remember why we were the good guys.
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:07:00 AM PDT
by
Happy Rain
("WARNING" -Sarah Palin is a very dangerous woman--she defends herself when attacked.)
To: JoeProBono
Dang it I have a site book marked somewhere that had some War of Northern Aggression pictures I had never seen before I will try to find it and post it to you.
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:10:46 AM PDT
by
Lees Swrd
("Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well")
To: Happy Rain
I sometimes wish Lee had done to Pennsylvania what those monsters did to the South but then I remember why we were the good guys. Notwithstanding the fact they went to Gettysburg to "liberate" the shoes.
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:12:37 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(If you're not a personhood pro-lifer, your conservatism is fatally flawed.)
To: JoeProBono; triumphant values
Not a one of them could honestly deny, that if one had a crystal ball back then that could show those Union soldiers the US circa 2011, that half would have tossed their rifles in the mud and went back home.
-- triumphant values
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:13:46 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: Lees Swrd
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:15:18 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: Bean Counter; SunkenCiv; JoeProBono
Don't they mean the ‘War of Northern Aggression’ ? ;)
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:16:52 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(What Would Aqua Buddha do?)
To: central_va
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:18:45 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: EternalVigilance
I would guess Sherman and Sheridan “liberated” many shoes as their blue belly thugs raped,murdered and burned.
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:18:50 AM PDT
by
Happy Rain
("WARNING" -Sarah Palin is a very dangerous woman--she defends herself when attacked.)
To: Bean Counter
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:22:42 AM PDT
by
Radix
("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
To: Perdogg
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:26:25 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: JoeProBono
Union Cavalry was he butt of jokes throughout most of the war, mostly inept. The old saying was if you could take the Confederate Infantry and Cavalry and combine it with the Union Artillery, you would have an unbeatable Army.
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:27:40 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: BenLurkin
Today, Lincoln’s actions would cause the UN to intervene.
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:30:58 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: nnn0jeh
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:34:28 AM PDT
by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: JoeProBono
I didn’t notice the anniversary date... April 12-13, 1861
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:34:41 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: central_va
Bump, yes this could get feisty before the end of the day.
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posted on
04/02/2011 8:35:52 AM PDT
by
WHBates
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