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Jonathan Alligood
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“J. G. Randall, who has been called ‘the greatest Lincoln scholar of all time,’ said the [Emancipation] Proclamation… did not free a single slave.… It is… scandalous that Americans, black and white, are so totally misinformed on this subject.”
— May 25, 2024 11:41AM
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Jonathan Alligood
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“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.“
— May 31, 2024 04:52AM
Jonathan Alligood
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“The doctrine [of the Gettysburg Address] is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination.… It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”
—H. L. Mencken, May 1920
— May 29, 2024 04:44PM
—H. L. Mencken, May 1920
