F6, love the old cartoons, quality is missing from so much these days .. this comment stood out .. it glared ..
6. Sabrina .. Corvallis, Oregon .. November 25th, 2010 .. 8:04 am
"Seems cynicism and ungratefulness and negativity is not new."
as devoid of understanding and of empathy .. 3 recommends, too .. oh well .. this later one looks excellent ..
11. Grits for Breakfast .. Atlanta .. November 25th, 2010 .. 10:46 am
"Dear Mr. Goodheart:
I am enjoying the "Disunion" series of essays marking the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War tremendously. Congratulations on bringing this enormously informative project to life. Judging by the number of comments each Blog receives, the Civil War remains fascinating to people on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.
I hesitate to make a small complaint, but feel it necessary to point out what seems to be an inaccuracate statement Mr. Malanowski made under his byline in the "Drama in Milledgeville" Blog regarding U. S. Senator from Georgia Robert A. Toombs. Mr. Malanowski's specific words are:
"Senator Robert Toombs noted that the slave population has quintupled from 800,000 in 1790 to four million at present, a rate that would result in 11 million slaves by 1900. What would we do with them? he asked. If we can’t expand our borders, extermination will be required."
Many readers of this Blog sent in comments about Senator Toombs, calling him "genocidal," "repugnant," "chilling," and "shocking," One of the commentators wrote that if Toombs truly said what Mr. Malanowski claims, "may he (Toombs) rot in hell," and all of these comments were "commended" by other readers.
Senator Toombs had a gigantic ego: he had wanted to be the first President of the Confederacy. He scorned his being appointed Confederate Secretary of State by his rival, Jefferson Davis, and resigned his position so he could be a Confederate general. Annoyed that he was passed over for promotion, he resigned his military commission. He was a heavy drinker, and he died blind. He remained an unreconstructed rebel, refusing to swear allegiance to the United States after the War was over. He seems to have been what most of us today would call a very unlikeable man. But to my knowlege, he did not say what Mr. Malanowski says he did.
Perhaps I am wrong. Maybe Mr. Malanowski found another speech by Senator Toombs in which he did say what Mr. Malanowski claims. I Googled "Senator Toombs, speech" and found two speeches, one extremely long, and another much shorter. In neither of them does he say "extermination will be required." What I found as the exact words Senator Toombs said in his shorter speech are as follows:
"We must expand or perish. We are constrained by an inexorable necessity to accept expansion or extermination. Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slave trade are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years."
Toombs was voicing his fear of the extermination of Southern planters and the Southern economy. He was NOT advocating or suggesting the extermination of the slaves. He seems NOT to have said "If we can’t expand our borders, extermination will be required."
If what I am saying is true, Mr. Malanowski has defamed Senator Toombs and provoked public wrath against him. I believe Mr. Malanowski should provide the source of his quotation from Senator Toombs' speech and publish it, or that he should publish a retraction and correction.
My "comment" to the "Milledgeville" Blog was # 51, the last of them all, and was probably not seen by most of the readers. That, plus the venomous reaction of the public to what Mr. Malanowski claims Senator Toombs spoke, is why I believe it would be appropriate for Mr. Malanowski to make a public response.
With kindest regards,
Noel Preston"
Noel Preston, seems on that one, a fair guy, and provided an interesting number.
Lol, maybe Senator Toombs wasn't aware of options such as Liberia.
Oops .. 1860 .. he must have been
The history of Liberia is unique among African nations because of its relationship with the United States. It is one of only two countries in Africa, along with Ethiopia, without roots in the European Scramble for Africa. It was founded and colonized by freed American slaves with the help of a private organization called the American Colonization Society in 1821-1822, on the premise that former American slaves would have greater freedom and equality there.
Ummm, plus .. those 'we don't want them' guys.
OT aside: there has been a 3rd explosion in the Pike River mine. No one on the surface was injured.
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