[geeks] I just saw...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2006/11/11 Sat PM 01:43:46 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] I just saw...

<snip>

>As for Lincon, have you ever read the emacipation proclimation? He freed
>the slaves in "the states in rebelion", over which he had no control.
>It really was a move to allow the Union Army to march into town, free
>the slaves and then conscript them. They were not allowed to fight,
>but someone had to dig the latrines, haul things, etc.

In today's business world we'd call that a clever use of limited resources (maybe like Iran-Contra in more modern history)...

>Slavery was allowed in Maryland until after the war. Lincoln was a 
>proponent of a "forgive and forget" type of policy. If he had lived, 
>things would have been very different in the post war south.

So J. W. Booth made it worse for his beloved South by shooting President Lincoln?

Lionel