At 07:45 PM 12/14/2002 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
If not for the foolish chivalry of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, in not following up their rout of the Union Army at the war's first big battle of Bull Run (called First Manassas in The South) just outside Washington, the war might have ended right then, 500,000 lives saved (including Lincoln's) and the possibility of peaceful emancipation made likely. Most importantly, we would still be a republic in fact and not simply in name.On Saturday 14 December 2002 18:18, Mike Rosing wrote: > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote: > > Lincoln's notion that the Constitution is suspendable during a war, > > or other emergency conditions, was disgraceful. Nothing in the > > Constitution says that it is suspended when a President declares it > > to be suspended. > > Power is what power does. He got away with it, that's all that > counts.Well, until April 14, 1865, anyway. Sic semper tyrannis.
From my review of the movie "Glory":
"If not for the foolish chivalry of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, in not following up their rout of the Union Army at the war's first big battle of Bull Run (called First Manassas in The South) just outside Washington, the war might have ended right then, 500,000 lives saved (including Lincoln's) and the possibility of peaceful emancipation made likely. Most importantly, we would still be a republic in fact and not simply in name."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/dvd/B000051YMQ/customer-reviews/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/002-1044140-8452014
