lincoln? should have killed himself! barring that, he should have done nothing regarding the confederate states of america.
you, lincoln and dubya: 3 peas, 1 pod. On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Hendrik & Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I take you are referring to me as being the Australian revisionist? > I am not killing anyone, I am stating my view point and allowing everyone > else to state theirs. > Further you have not given any logical arguments as to how Lincoln should > have proceeded. So how can I kill anything that you have written? > Far as I am concerned Lincoln was caught between a rock and a hard place. > > So if Iran, North Korea and others have a policy of developing nuclear > weapons they should (according to the average American) be able to do this? > I am not even going to mention the once former sovereign nations of Iraq > and Afghanistan. > > The argument that slavery would have naturally stopped because of > mechanization is fanciful at best. They still need people to operate > machines and work in factories and clean houses and cook food and all the > other jobs that require labor. As a side note, 20 years ago I had a holiday > job chipping cotton, with a hoe walking up and down cotton rows getting rid > of weeds. I think now they have selective herbicides to do this but there is > still a truck load of work to do on a farm. > > There a million what if the south has gone it alone, however one to ponder > is WW2 in which the south may well have sided with the Axis, thus making > things very interesting. The US of A may well not have developed an A bomb, > whereas the USSR might have, giving us a very interesting (and perhaps > short) cold war. > > Now we can all sit back and ponder the world we have today, it might not be > perfect but it could be a hell of a lot worse. > > Hendrik > the revisionist > > > Gary Hurst wrote: > >> he's some kind of australian revisionist who believe in just killing >> everyone who disagrees with him. i didn't know that such people still >> existed. frightening. >> >> if a sovereign nation has policies that you don't agree with, just burn >> and >> kill them until they comply. maybe that is how they do it in sydney and >> tel >> aviv, but i'd like to think the average american finds this outlook as >> shocking as i do. >> >> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Scott Ritchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> The US Civil War was about more than slavery. At that time the main >>> federal >>> tax was import duties. The south, having little ability to manufacture >>> goods paid a very disproportionate share of these taxes while the north >>> made >>> a lot of their own stuff and didn't need many imports. Lincoln's >>> emancipation proclamation was a political move that only freed slaves in >>> the >>> south while any slaves in the north (still slaves under Dred-Scott) were >>> not >>> effected. The primary result was to push back open support for the south >>> in >>> Europe and the UK who were then anti-slave. Practically speaking, >>> slavery >>> was already doomed in the US because machines would be more economical in >>> a >>> just a few years. The real issue was secession and slavery was just one >>> factor. The south believed that they because they joined the union >>> voluntarily and could also leave if they wanted to. The constitution was >>> silent (and still is) on that issue. Lincoln believed that the union >>> would >>> continue to fragment (like Germany) over every little issue once the >>> precedent was set so, despite much political resistance in the north, he >>> went to war to keep the union intact. By any measure, it was the worst >>> war >>> in US history. One wonders how the history of the world would be >>> different >>> if the south had been allowed to secede. >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
