Quotes Leading Up to the War

[matthew mckeon]

Dear samgrant,
Unbiased in McPherson's case doesn't mean without a strong judgement or point of view. Which of course you can disagree with. But its an honest attempt to understand events.

Dear Rob,
Yes I am grumpy. You wanna make something of that?

Hey that's the first time I did one of those icon things!

[Alabaman]

Dear Rob,
Yes I am grumpy. You wanna make something of that?

Hey that's the first time I did one of those icon things![/quote]

Matthew,
Thats what I thought. Nope, not me. I'm a peaceful Reb! ;-)
Your icon is red (ie. hot). You're dreaming of HEAT because its too cold in Yankeeland! And s-u-m-m-e-r is a l-o-n-g way o-f-f-! No wonder you are so grumpy! LOL!
Rob

[matthew mckeon]

John Quincy Adams addressing Congress in 1836:

"Mr. Chairman, are you ready for all these wars? A Mexican War? A war with Great Britain, if not with France? A general Indian war? A servile war? And, as a an inevitable consequence of them all, a civil war?...

From the instant that your slaveholding states become teh theatre of war, civil, servile, or foreign, from that instant the war powers of Congress extend to interference with the institution of slavery in every way by which it can be interfered with..."

Prophetic!

Although not our most successful president, Adams was an effective member of the House of Representatives, I believe the only president to return to Congress.

[matthew mckeon]

Dixon Lewis, Representative from Alabama, when John Quincy Adams attempted to present a petition supposedly from slaves:

"the House should punish severely such an infraction of its decorum and rules...if thisis not done, and that promptly, every member from the slave States shoiuld immediately, in a body, quit this House, and go home..."

Julius Alford, Representative from Georgia, about the same petition:
"..as an act of justice to the South...(the petition) should be taken from the House and burnt. The moment any man should disgrace the Government under which he lived, by presenting a petition from slaves praying for emancipation, he hoped the petition would, by order of the House, be committed to the flames."

Feb. 6, 1837

From "Arguing Slavery" William Lee Miller