http://www.historynet.com/nicholas-biddle-first-blood.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:03:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.historynet.com/nicholas-biddle-first-blood.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17980 richard fusilier Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:32:51 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13678873#comment-17980 The Civil War need not have been fought. ZAt the vrery time of ft. DSumner, thdere was a High Council of Confederate and Northern Cignitaries rreaching rapprochemnt, when Gen Beauregard took the place, Lincoln had lied assrting ythat he we would not lodge any yroops on Confederate tefrritory nor caxhe armn=ms there, but he did and refused to remove them, thus P.T. Beaauregard acted. Linc0ln imposed an embargo on the South some months before hostilities. The Feds killed all chickens, cattle, horses, burned crops, cities and lone farm houses to starve the South. . There were more slaves up North than in the South.(true) The Civil war was fought over principle not slavery. It was going out anyway. Lincoln was a clever attorney. I read his cases in Law school. How he loved to refer to his opponent as a jackass!; He lost very few cases. How about his suspending habeas corpus? Booth said "thus die Tyrants. but he was our President and a great man! What gurt thebDSouth swas the "Mason Dixon Tax, fiaally vitiated hy Eisenhouer and South arose in prosperity; The Civil War need not have been fought. ZAt the vrery time of ft.
DSumner, thdere was a High Council of Confederate and Northern
Cignitaries rreaching rapprochemnt, when Gen Beauregard took the
place, Lincoln had lied assrting ythat he we would not lodge any yroops
on Confederate tefrritory nor caxhe armn=ms there, but he did and
refused to remove them, thus P.T. Beaauregard acted. Linc0ln imposed
an embargo on the South some months before hostilities. The Feds
killed all chickens, cattle, horses, burned crops, cities and lone farm
houses to starve the South.
. There were more slaves up North than in the South.(true) The Civil
war was fought over principle not slavery. It was going out anyway.
Lincoln was a clever attorney. I read his cases in Law school. How he
loved to refer to his opponent as a jackass!; He lost very few cases. How
about his suspending habeas corpus? Booth said “thus die Tyrants. but
he was our President and a great man! What gurt thebDSouth swas the
“Mason Dixon Tax, fiaally vitiated hy Eisenhouer and South arose in
prosperity;

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