Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. -Albert Einstein
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The "consititution-breaking, law-defying, negro-loving Pharisseeism of New England" had caused the war, said Samuel S. Cox. "In the name of God," cried a former governor of Illinois in December 1862, "no more bloodshed to gratify a religious fanaticism." An Ohio editor branded Lincoln a "half-witted usurper" and his Emancipation Proclamation "monstrous, impudent, and heinous...insulting to God as to man, for it declares those 'equal' whom God created unequal.
Did such rhetoric fall within the rights of free speech and a free press? A case can be made that it stimulated desertion from the army and resistance to the war effort. Democratic newspapers that circulated among soldiers contained many editorials proclaming the illegality of an anti-slavery war. "You percieve that it is to emancipate slaves... that you are used as soldiers," declared the Dubuque Herald. "Are you, as soldiers, bound by patritoism, duty or loyalty to fight in such a cause?" Newspapers printed many alleged letters written by family members at home to soldiers in the army. "I am sorry you are engaged in this...unholy, unconstitutional and hellish war," a father supposedly wrote to his son, "which has no other purpose but to free the negroes and enslave the whites." Another letter advised an Illinois solider "to come home, if you have to desert, you will be protected- the people are so enraged that you need not be alarmed if you hear the whole of the northwest killing off the abolitionists. Such propaganda had it's intended effect. So many members of two southern Illinois regiments deserted "rather than help free the slaves" that general Grant had to disband the regiements. Soldiers from several other regiments allowed themselves to be captured so they could be paroled and sent home.
The Piston's Lost. Sigh.
Three overtimes. Sigh.
Databases. Sigh.
Verere testudinem! (Fear the turtle)
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. -Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Mick
It's not dead...it's ALIVE!!!!
Oh Mick... Just when I thought that it is dead. Don't you know that it is BORING ???
BTW I also read somewhere that caffine is actually good. Oh these studies One say that it is bad. A decade later they say it is actually good. Just follow your sense...that'll be good and satisfying
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Sorry, I am really bored... and it is 2:50am... and I should probably goto sleep...
but I am too bored to sleep... so I thought I would share my boredom with others...
Originally posted by dimm_coder
Hey, U, boring people..
Hope I wasn't among them. Neither am I boring nor do I get bored. Yea... I hardly get bored. So fun filled life, eegh? Well it isn't as fun filled as Tom's routine (where he said he doesn't brush his teeth ) life though.
/ day dreaming...aaahh
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One say that it is bad. A decade later they say it is actually good. Just follow your sense...that'll be good and satisfying
Well, wish you happy boring 
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