--- "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 [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
