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The Meaning of the Gettysburg Address
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The Meaning of the Gettysburg Address
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09-07-2012, 09:12 AM
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RE: The Meaning of the Gettysburg Address
I think Southerners also misjudged Lincoln's determination to hold the union together. The South was used to having its way throughout the years, with the fugitive slave laws and Dred Scott, and Lincoln didn't offer any threat to either. Once the South determined otherwise, it lost the protections of either law.
I also disagree that Lemmon would have made a difference. It only made it to the New York Court of Appeals and it, along with every other court, upheld the lower court's ruling. Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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