Showing posts with label Reconstruction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reconstruction. Show all posts

Monday, September 27, 2010

The Calamity Of Appomattox By H.L. Mencken

Sept., 1930 "......of the men who run the South today, and represent it at Washington, not 5%, by any Southern standard, are gentlemen."

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Lincoln And His War

"The historical record shows that Lincoln supported the original 13th Amendment which would have protected African slavery in the United States, (Forever. BT) yet still the seceded States would not return to the Union. Once the Southern Congress convened and authorized a low and virtual free tariff on imported goods into Southern ports, Lincoln and his Northern-industrialist political base demanded war to the knife, and the reduction of the South to a mere economic colony. Read the rest HERE.