"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
150 YEARS AGO: State Official Severs Political Ties with Congressman in Letter Denouncing Lincoln
Submitted by Emmett Harris on Mon, 2014-03-17 23:00
“Four more years under President Abraham Lincoln 'will irretrievably and hopelessly destroy' the United States as a land of constitutionally protected freedom, state Register of Lands Sample Orr wrote to U.S. Rep. James Rollins.” Not that the Constitution was doing a bang of job of do that anyway, but Lincoln's presidency certainly pushed things further along.
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