Louis Weichmann

[Gene C]

(09-16-2015 02:57 PM)Pamela Wrote:  Clearly there is a lot of Southern sympothy around here....
She was a woman who chose to play a dangerous game, and it didn't work out for her, but there was a disgusting amount of tragic loss of life in the conflict for the right to keep slaves. Anyone with an IQ above room temperature knew that Weichmann didn't hang Mary Surratt -- she hung herself when she welcomed conspirators into her home and told Lloyd to have the shooting irons ready just hours before the assassination.

I can agree to that. Plus....
Mary denied knowing Lewis Powell, her daughter Anna's confession "Oh ma, and to think that man (Booth) was here ony hours before the assassination", plus her Confederate courrier house guests.


Weichmann's not good enought to be a part of the confederate plot, can't ride, can't shoot, not too bright, but he's smart enough to be a double agent and fool everybody for months.
I don't think so.

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(09-16-2015 04:23 PM)Wild Bill Wrote:  It is nice to blame everything on slavery, but before we get all mushy and moralistic, what we really are talking about here is political power.

If one gets rid of all the nonsense spewed forth by then abolitionists and the antislaveryites and reads the cases of Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) and Ableman v. Booth (1859), one would see that the Northern position had lost out on its illegalities and the Civil War was pure bunk. It was caused by the North to save a losing legal position.

I hope I didn't select certain comments and take them out of context, but I don't agee with any of that.