"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
In Search of the State of Franklin
Submitted by Emmett Harris on Tue, 2014-08-05 00:00
It would have been a new state, but … “Had the state of North Carolina not been bitterly opposed to the formation of the new state, Franklin almost certainly would have been accepted into the union by the Continental Congress. But because of North Carolina's opposition, the proposal to accept Franklin failed to be approved by Congress. “
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