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Prelude to the Civil War; Four states mark the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid
johnbrownraid.org ^ | March/April 2009 | Theresa Gawlas Medoff

Posted on 03/21/2009 7:02:03 AM PDT by Liz

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To: Troy McGreggor
I find it quite odd that Brown was able to contain his anti-slavery passion and refrain from attacks on Union states that still allowed slavery. Some are more equal than others.

I guess that shows how full of S he was.

"Quite odd" indeed.

Brown was executed in 1859, when all the states were still "Union states."

61 posted on 03/21/2009 2:13:52 PM PDT by x
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To: wolfcreek

How about the South seceding again...?.:) The present Administration certainly gives a thought of it......


62 posted on 03/21/2009 2:14:02 PM PDT by TexConfederate1861
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To: bushfamfan

You need to stop reading “uncle Tom’s Cabin”....
Most slaves were not brutalized.


63 posted on 03/21/2009 2:15:56 PM PDT by TexConfederate1861
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To: TexConfederate1861

Actually Uncle Tom’s Cabin made a very good case that most slaves were not brutalized.


64 posted on 03/21/2009 2:17:50 PM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: TexConfederate1861

I guess those damned slaves, inhuman as they were, should have just been left to suffer since they were just propert. A wonderful law, unless you were a slave.

And citizens of the “noble Southern heritage” wonder why more and more of the nation thinks that everything of associated with the Confederacy is nothing more than a ruse to re-establish slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws,and lynching.

BTW:And killing Jews was the “law of the land in Germany”


65 posted on 03/21/2009 2:38:24 PM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: TexConfederate1861

You animal!!!

Slavery of another human being in and of itself is brutal.

To think otherwise is inhuman.


66 posted on 03/21/2009 2:43:22 PM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: bushfamfan

And isn’t it funny that all of the civilized country’s ,Britain,Brazil Russia,Portugal ect manged to to free their slaves without the actions of blood swillng lunatics and rapple rousers


67 posted on 03/21/2009 3:37:23 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: IrishCatholic
so you don't believe anyone should be IN HELL???

free dixie,sw

68 posted on 03/21/2009 3:49:18 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: bushfamfan; All
john brown was at least as decent a fellow as ted bundy was. in other words, he was FILTH, too.

BOTH got PRECISELY what they deserved.

btw, Haywood Sheppard was a VA lawman, as well as a railway porter/nightwatchman. he is revered as the FIRST of many a Confederate martyr by many Virginians.

free dixie,sw

69 posted on 03/21/2009 3:54:58 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: PurpleMan
just out of curiosity, are you DRUNK and/or are you just being a DUMB-bunny???

free dixie,sw

70 posted on 03/21/2009 4:01:01 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Arkinsaw
WELL SAID!!!

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71 posted on 03/21/2009 4:05:19 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: freema
HI!

just out of curiosity, are you also calling for another meeting of "The DAMNyankee Coven, of fools, liars, bigots, raving lunatics, antisemites & DUMB-bunnies", too???

currently, at least half of "the good 'ole rebs" are present & accounted for.

rotflmRao.

free dixie,sw

72 posted on 03/21/2009 4:16:28 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: PurpleMan
And citizens of the “noble Southern heritage” wonder why more and more of the nation thinks that everything of associated with the Confederacy is nothing more than a ruse to re-establish slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws,and lynching.

Wonder why more and more of the nation can't read a map and have no idea what years the Civil War was fought in and continue to elect people who destroy their paychecks?
73 posted on 03/21/2009 4:22:06 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: Arkinsaw; PurpleMan
fwiw, "most people" think BHO is honest & "a pretty decent fellow", who is suitable as POTUS, too.

those are the same sort of UNeducated, IGNORANT (and all too frequently, downright STUPID) people, who believe that the War for Southern Independence was about "freeing the slaves".

"what most people think" is FREQUENTLY untruthful, arrogantly ignorant & filled with HATE for dixie & her people.

FYI, most of the idiots, who saddled this nation with 4 years of BHO (the FASCIST), are also DAMNyankees.

free dixie,sw

74 posted on 03/21/2009 4:56:15 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: TexConfederate1861
To murder innocent people is not Christian or biblical

I'd say you'd probably want to re say that differently, it is unBiblical to murder anyone.

Just to add my 2 cents here, I'm pretty sure that John Brown didn't see his killings as murder but saw his work of killing as taking of the Biblical law into his own hands instead of letting the government of the land that he was living in do it. He saw that the government of the land wasn't going to do anything about the injustice he saw so he set out to do justice as he saw it in Biblical terms. A modern day example of this thinking is some one that is pro life shooting some one that preforms abortions. In my opinion the Biblical case would be for him to teach or preach to other about the injustice he saw and to get the government of the land in which he lived to change their law to reflect a more Biblical law or to enforce the Biblical law that was built into the civil law which I believe was already on the books at the time. Basically it is the Biblical duty to teach the law, let the government of the land to fulfill the law or not, and to let God bless them or curse them for keeping the law or for breaking the law.

75 posted on 03/21/2009 6:20:27 PM PDT by ReformedBeckite
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To: stand watie

So you agree that “Most slaves were not brutalized.” and that slavery in and of itself is not brutal??

Oh My God.


76 posted on 03/21/2009 6:55:10 PM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: Arkinsaw

If you took the time to read the post you would realize that by his/her statements, the moron I was replying to inferred that because Uncle Tom’s Cabin made the case for slaves not all being brutalized slavery was O.K.

THAT is why I went after him, not about friggin’ geography.


77 posted on 03/21/2009 6:59:29 PM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan
THAT is why I went after him, not about friggin’ geography.

Why does it matter who you were going after or why? I was responding directly to your quote.
78 posted on 03/21/2009 7:01:47 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: stand watie

No. I don’t believe anyone should wish someone else to go there.
By the way, it’s been a while. Hope you are well.


79 posted on 03/21/2009 7:09:29 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: stand watie; Colonel Kangaroo; x; Ditto; mac_truck

That book ever arrive?


80 posted on 03/21/2009 7:23:30 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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