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To: GOPcapitalist
No... explain how Jackson was going to get in touch with the Congress and ask them to suspend the Writ -- with no telegraph and the Brits on the doorstep.

Jackson did the right thing. President Lincoln did the right thing.

Walt

660 posted on 01/21/2004 1:30:40 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa (Virtue is the uncontested prize.)
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To: WhiskeyPapa
No... explain how Jackson was going to get in touch with the Congress and ask them to suspend the Writ -- with no telegraph and the Brits on the doorstep.

Irrelevant. Your statement assumes that it was absolutely necessary to suspend the writ in the first place (as if he could not seek arrests and simply file charges with them). It is also incomparable to any situation Lincoln ever faced because where Jackson did not have a telegraph and was hundreds of miles away from the capital building, Lincoln DID have a telegraph and was about half a mile away from the capital building.

679 posted on 01/21/2004 8:00:48 AM PST by GOPcapitalist
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