Posted on 01/17/2013 2:16:28 AM PST by Kaslin
I see our friend Lazamataz has already been there ;-)
Poor donny. All the bad people pick on him, when all he is doing is bringing The Greater Truth to all the benighted ingrates. sniff
Try looking up “duress” donny.
It will be good for you to learn a new word.
“and morally are on the side of the angels.”
Good grief. If you keep on in this vein you are going to give idiocy a bad name.
Duress is what happened when southern soldiers were conscripted under color of authority to force them into treason in support of slavery.
Duress is when Lee put snipers behind his men to shoot them dead if they retreated.
Duress is when Beauregard fired on Major Anderson at Sumter to force a US officer performing his duty to surrender and evacuate his post.
Duress is when Lee put up whipping posts for the slaves at Arlington, and paid a man to whip a teenage girl, shouting ‘Lay it on!”
I see you self identify as ‘dishonest’.
Lee was covered under the surrender agreement at Appromatox. Unless he violated the terms of parole, he could not be tried. Grant made that point, to the extent necessary.
Lee did apply for a pardon, which admitted guilt.
That is because South Carolina deserved what they got and more.
Poor South Carolina. Too small to be a country, to large to be an asylum.
That is because South Carolina deserved what they got and more.
Poor South Carolina. Too small to be a country, too large to be an asylum.
What does that have to do with Lincoln getting his brains blown out?
The suppression of the insurrection was legal. The War of the Great Rebellion was conducted with courts in session, and the Supreme Court made several rulings against the Lincoln administration.
By contrast the Davis regime of the pretended confederacy never got around to appointing their counterpart to the US Supreme Court. Davis was thus free to act illegally, and did. After the war was over, a southern partisan illegally murdered the elected US president, an act the victorious US did not do to the traitor, Jeff Davis.
Of course there is that rude song about the sour apple tree for the southern partisans to complain about.
What does that have to do with Lincoln getting his brains blown out?
The assassination of Lincoln was just another illegal act by the slave power and its supporters.
By contrast, the US government was, quite properly, restricted by law throughout.
“I see you self identify as ‘dishonest’.”
Not at all. However I find you to be both dishonest and a fool. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I’m sure it contributes to your happiness.
To crooked eyes, truth has an awry face.
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