To: donmeaker
AND they wanted to punish all Southerners for it. Hence came Reconstruction.
133 posted on
06/12/2013 9:02:40 AM PDT by
Sam Gamgee
(May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
To: Sam Gamgee
Hence came Reconstruction.The 'joke' was on them, since it wasn't just the South that got *reconstructed*.
:-)
137 posted on
06/12/2013 9:31:32 AM PDT by
MamaTexan
(The government was not instituted to define the Rights of the People)
To: Sam Gamgee
No, they had several ways that were tried to bring the southern states back normal. The most generous and conciliatory were tried first. That was when the KKK was started. In response to the KKK, more stringent measures were attempted.
165 posted on
06/12/2013 7:55:43 PM PDT by
donmeaker
(Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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