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Post #358,171

by lincoln

5/29/12 9:24:30 AM

not a chance

that author was much too kind and polite. If I were ever to write a letter to my former employer I, as is my custom, be forthright, direct, and to the point, holding back nothing.

"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."

-- E.L. Doctorow

TNC: Black Confederates at Harvard - (Another Scott) - (56) - Sept. 2, 2011, 11:40:34 AM EDT

discuss away - (boxley) - (50) - Sept. 3, 2011, 02:41:08 PM EDT

exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis -NT - (Another Scott) - (48) - Sept. 3, 2011, 03:18:41 PM EDT

corner cases do apply - (boxley) - (47) - Sept. 3, 2011, 03:57:44 PM EDT

Read it again. - (Another Scott) - (46) - Sept. 3, 2011, 04:17:42 PM EDT

I read it just fine - (boxley) - (45) - Sept. 3, 2011, 04:25:41 PM EDT

You think there were 3,000 - 10,000 black fifes in the CSA? -NT - (Another Scott) - (44) - Sept. 3, 2011, 04:32:04 PM EDT

dunno, lets take a look - (boxley) - (43) - Sept. 3, 2011, 04:53:03 PM EDT

You might want to find another source. - (Another Scott) - (5) - Sept. 3, 2011, 05:14:31 PM EDT

So the report by Lewis H Steiner. - (boxley) - (4) - Sept. 3, 2011, 05:25:56 PM EDT

Occam's Razor. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Sept. 3, 2011, 05:44:31 PM EDT

Ahh, the laugh test - (crazy) - Sept. 3, 2011, 06:35:58 PM EDT

FFS are you claiming that the description - (boxley) - (1) - Sept. 3, 2011, 08:46:27 PM EDT

Ok... - (Another Scott) - Sept. 3, 2011, 09:09:18 PM EDT

Another rebuttal you might like. - (Another Scott) - (36) - Sept. 3, 2011, 06:53:06 PM EDT

I will quote General Bedford Forrest in rebuttal - (boxley) - (35) - Sept. 3, 2011, 08:50:10 PM EDT

Hold on a second - (drook) - (17) - Sept. 3, 2011, 09:07:19 PM EDT

it was a war to steal the wealth of the south - (boxley) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2011, 02:24:28 PM EDT

Really? - the wealth of the South . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 4, 2011, 02:26:02 PM EDT

It wasn't - (SpiceWare) - (14) - Sept. 4, 2011, 06:00:27 PM EDT

And why were the confederate states trying to secede? -NT - (drook) - (13) - Sept. 4, 2011, 07:20:53 PM EDT

why was the union stealing slaves then selling therm? - (boxley) - Sept. 4, 2011, 09:32:40 PM EDT

I don't deny that slavery was a factor - (SpiceWare) - Sept. 7, 2011, 12:04:00 AM EDT

Their Constitutional Rights were being violated by the North - (mmoffitt) - (10) - Sept. 7, 2011, 08:36:34 AM EDT

A neat, bound copy for $5 ppd?! Order 300M of the suckers. -NT - (Ashton) - Sept. 7, 2011, 06:53:47 PM EDT

They lost the argument. Thankfully. -NT - (Another Scott) - (8) - Sept. 7, 2011, 08:06:16 PM EDT

What argument? - (mmoffitt) - (7) - Sept. 8, 2011, 11:00:45 AM EDT

If it's so clear cut, what was Dred Scott about? - (Another Scott) - (6) - Sept. 8, 2011, 01:02:13 PM EDT

Huh? - (mmoffitt) - (5) - Sept. 8, 2011, 03:10:30 PM EDT

doffs cap in your direction -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 8, 2011, 04:47:01 PM EDT

We live in alternate universes apparently. :-/ -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 8, 2011, 06:13:05 PM EDT

Have you been reading "Disunion" in the NYTimes? - (Another Scott) - (2) - Sept. 9, 2011, 09:10:30 PM EDT

So, because he didn't do it until a year later, ... - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Sept. 12, 2011, 09:09:08 AM EDT

dubya actually used lincum as precedent in his argument -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 12, 2011, 09:06:29 AM EDT

Yeah, Forrest was a great man. - (Another Scott) - (10) - Sept. 3, 2011, 09:20:40 PM EDT

you mentioned lots of reporters in the war eh? - (boxley) - (9) - Sept. 4, 2011, 02:41:08 PM EDT

You're dancing around the issue. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Sept. 4, 2011, 03:41:35 PM EDT

hey thanx! you just admitted 1500 black csa troops - (boxley) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2011, 06:09:08 PM EDT

Read it again. They didn't fight. -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2011, 06:58:52 PM EDT

never said they did, I said they served -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 4, 2011, 09:16:02 PM EDT

You didn't answer my question. Did you miss it? - (Another Scott) - (4) - Sept. 4, 2011, 03:48:39 PM EDT

sorry, I went back thru your links - (boxley) - (3) - Sept. 4, 2011, 06:11:20 PM EDT

One last time, then I'm done. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2011, 07:28:42 PM EDT

One last time myself - (boxley) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2011, 09:30:23 PM EDT

Or as Shelby noted... - (mmoffitt) - Sept. 7, 2011, 08:48:31 AM EDT

Hmmmm . . . Doesn't say they were armed and fighting. - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - Sept. 4, 2011, 02:34:16 PM EDT

so the 90 guys in iraq that support the 10 combat troops - (boxley) - (4) - Sept. 4, 2011, 02:44:05 PM EDT

Yeah, they're already doing that - (drook) - (3) - Sept. 4, 2011, 03:47:40 PM EDT

we are saving money doing that? - (boxley) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2011, 06:01:31 PM EDT

What's the question? - (drook) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2011, 07:25:31 PM EDT

pick one, I dont care -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 4, 2011, 09:31:02 PM EDT

(Dup.) -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 3, 2011, 03:20:30 PM EDT

For those interested - TNC has a follow-up - (Another Scott) - Sept. 5, 2011, 02:22:37 PM EDT

Jourdon Anderson writes his old boss. - (Another Scott) - (3) - May 28, 2012, 07:00:12 PM EDT

now I wonder if our lincoln would write a similar letter - (boxley) - (1) - May 28, 2012, 09:52:18 PM EDT

not a chance - (lincoln) - May 29, 2012, 09:24:30 AM EDT

Just plain Masterful.. - (Ashton) - May 28, 2012, 10:58:11 PM EDT

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