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On this date in 1859

Posted on 10/16/2018 6:41:01 AM PDT by Bull Snipe

Abolitionist John Brown, leading a force of about 20 men, captures the U.S. Government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA. By the 18th, most of Brown's men will be dead, He and a few others are captured by U.S. Marines under the command of LTCOL. R.E. Lee. Brown will be tried for treason by the state of Virginia and hanged.


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To: Pelham

“I don’t buy that. James Buchanan was President and while a Pennsylvanian he was friendly towards the South. His critics called him a “doughface”, a Northern politician sympathetic to the South.”

You are treating events before Brown’s failed revolution with the days after.

Does what I just wrote make any sense to you?


41 posted on 10/17/2018 5:29:51 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

It’s a fine example of the Argument of the Beard, Continuum Fallacy, Heap Paradox.


42 posted on 10/17/2018 5:43:48 PM PDT by Pelham (California, how mass immigration transforms America into Obamaland)
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To: Pelham

“It’s a fine example of the Argument of the Beard, Continuum Fallacy, Heap Paradox.”

I don’t even know what you are talking about.


43 posted on 10/17/2018 5:50:21 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

Then I missed the point you intended in your previous post.


44 posted on 10/17/2018 6:00:42 PM PDT by Pelham (California, how mass immigration transforms America into Obamaland)
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