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Sekhmets Daughter

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26. I'm a Yankee through and through...

Reply to Paladin (Reply #11)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 01:27 PM

Nov 2012

The politicians waged the war over slavery...the uneducated and uninformed then, as now, bought into the nonsense that their states rights were being trammeled.

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Since We Are Playing The "What If " Game? Re : Reconstruction [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2012 OP

It Was Botched, Sir The Magistrate Nov 2012 #1

Indeed Sir. bemildred Nov 2012 #2

What's Ironic Is That Too Many Americans What We Are Saying Is Blasphemous. DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2012 #6

Perhaps if you were to clarify what you mean, I would be able to respond to it. bemildred Nov 2012 #9

Good People, Mr. Bemildred, Tend To Botch The Exploitation Phase Of Victory.... The Magistrate Nov 2012 #12

It is certainly true, Sir, that examples of successful prosecution of a bemildred Nov 2012 #17

There Are Good And Bad People In The South, As In Everywhere DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2012 #3

Had he lived, reconstruction might have been carried out better... Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #5

Problem is, the only thing worse than having the South inside the US would have been geek tragedy Nov 2012 #7

On The Other Hand , Slavery Would Have Made Them International Pariahs/nt DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2012 #13

Colonial Britain and France would have been flexible in their outrage geek tragedy Nov 2012 #19

C'mon, Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #4

There Is No Such Thing As States Rights Only Human Rights DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2012 #8

We are talking about history here.... Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #25

Neo-Confederate Blather. Paladin Nov 2012 #11

I'm a Yankee through and through... Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #26

Nonesense, Ma'am The Magistrate Nov 2012 #14

Actually Southerners were humiliated csziggy Nov 2012 #10

I Wouldn't Have Wanted To Punish Southerners DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2012 #15

Exactly. Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #27

Not Nearly Enough, Sir The Magistrate Nov 2012 #16

We couldn't hang the officers or soldiers of Lee's Army. NutmegYankee Nov 2012 #18

Just Part Of The Mistake, Sir The Magistrate Nov 2012 #21

It was a matter of Honor. NutmegYankee Nov 2012 #28

Honor, Sir, is And Has Always Been, Stuff And Nonesense The Magistrate Nov 2012 #29

+1. bemildred Nov 2012 #30

We could have, and justly too, but did not. That is all that document shows. nt bemildred Nov 2012 #22

Sir, I have little objection to the way the South was treated csziggy Nov 2012 #31

Again, Sir: Not Nearly Enough The Magistrate Nov 2012 #32

Lincoln's version of reconstruction thucythucy Nov 2012 #20

That's the core of it. bemildred Nov 2012 #24

reconstruction FDRLincoln Nov 2012 #23

Locking ellisonz Nov 2012 #33