--- Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh, and any dope who thinks Kansas and Nebraska > were > > nice sleepy > > little free states oughta learn to spell a few > > little words like > > Q-U-A-N-T-R-E-L-L and then JOHN BROWN. > > (Now start with a "Q"...gooooood! Now a > "U".......) > > > > Fortunately, I am just skimming first lines, > then > > autoflushing any > > drivel written by such ... estimable... minds. > > David, do you really want to debate the Civil War > with > me? Well, I'm not sure if the above qualifies as > _debating_, but whatever. Quantrell was a > confederate > raider who massacred people in Lawrence _Kansas_. > John Brown (whom I mentioned) was fighting in > _Kansas_. The warfare over the Kansas-Nebraska Act > was fought in _Kansas_. Nebraska, however, is not > in > Kansas. Nebraska was always a free state. _Both_ > states were north of the Missouri Compromise line. > Both should have been free states because of this. > Stephen Douglas tried to win votes in the > slave-holding South by splitting the territory into > two states in the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Nebraska > became a free state. Northern and Southern > partisans > fought it out in Kansas over whether Kansas would > become a slave state. You then got lots of battles > over things like the Lecompton Constitution, and so > on. The end result of all of this was the election > of > Abraham Lincoln. > > Why you're focusing on this I have no idea, but > whatever. Ohio was not a slave state either, yet it > voted for President Bush. Maryland was a slave > state > kept in the Union only because Lincoln dissolved the > state legislature at gunpoint, and it went > overwhelmingly for Kerry. > > Gautam Mukunda
One more note, since it's so amusing I can't resist adding it. "Quantrell" is an acceptable spelling of the man's name. Spelling during the 19th century was highly erratic. I must add, though, that the one you almost always see is Quantrill. Note the "i" instead of the "e". As a general rule of thumb, if you want to spell something out for someone, it helps to get it right. For anyone who is interested, even if you've never heard of Quantrill, you have _definitely_ heard of one of the members of his band. Jesse James the outlaw was one of Quantrill's raiders. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
