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Offline Ptarmigan

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Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« on: June 29, 2013, 02:13:34 PM »
They are talking about John Brown, who was White and started an anti-slave revolt.

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 In 1859, Brown attempted to start an anti-slavery rebellion in the South. The attempt was unsuccessful. Some pro-slavers were killed.

Brown was executed. But his actions played an important role in starting the Civil War, which brought about the end of slavery.

Brown commited a crime to help end a horrible institution. Would you have cheered his punishment?

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1. Blast from the past: when Republicans wanted to end slavery

Brown was a pivotal figure, the forgotten 'father' of sorts of the Civil Rights Movement

I'm never glad when anyone is killed
 

Yet his execution had a powerful influence on citizens

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2. I fear that in the 1859 version of DU, many

would be screaming for Brown's head on a platter and refusing to acknowledge the evil of slavery - because it was legal.
It was the Dems that was for slavery as they are today in the form of welfare and social programs.

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3. Never happened Bro, never happened.

LOL

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72. That's a given. They would have pleaded with King George to save them from those wascally webels

Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Washington, and the rest of the crew, and moved to Canada in despair after the wascally webel lawbreakers won our Independence from England.

"Filthy lawbreakers and miscreants, the lot of them was, guvnuh. Traitors to the bloody crown. Hang 'em all I says."

The calculated de-emphasis on teaching history and literature in schools since Reagan appointed Bill Bennett Secretary of Education has been an astounding success for the authoritarian RW agenda.

Many Childs Left Behind is working.
They never moved to Canada.  :bs:

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Arctic Dave (12,731 posts)
10. Long live the Confederacy!!

Those slaves had it good with their free room and board.

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MotherPetrie (2,195 posts)
11. No. I'm opposed to capital punishment.

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backscatter712 (20,635 posts)
15. Not to mention that the attempt to recruit slaves into the rebellion...

...would have deprived good Christian plantation owners of valuable property!
When are slave owners Christians????????? You make it sound like they are all Christians.  :bs:

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51. EPIC FAIL! Manny has illuminated the distinctionb between 'legal' and

'moral' and done so with a clearness of vision that is usally lacking in American polticial discourse.

I wish his question would ****ing go viral or whatever it is the kids say these days when a framing takes over the national conversation.

BTW, the question was whether YOU would have been glad Brown was hanged, not what your ancestors and forbears might have thought. YOU!!!

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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2013, 02:41:02 PM »
Checking into Ancestery.co, I found a Yankee officer related to my Hubby's family that road until the horse died of exertion to get the help John Brown needed at Harpers Ferry.   

Too late he got there for help.   I wonder if anyone in Hubby's family would even think to do the same today.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2013, 02:49:57 PM »
Quote from: vesta111 on June 29, 2013, 02:41:02 PM
Checking into Ancestery.co, I found a Yankee officer related to my Hubby's family that road until the horse died of exertion to get the help John Brown needed at Harpers Ferry.   

Too late he got there for help.   I wonder if anyone in Hubby's family would even think to do the same today.

Robert E. Lee was the officer in charge of putting down Brown's little revolution. He was a Colonel in the Army. The US Army.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2013, 03:02:50 PM »
in 1859 the Democrat party fully supported slavery. If DU had been around at that time anyone who stood against slavery would have been banned. Group think rules supreme at DU, as does the rat party.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2013, 03:17:33 PM »
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1. Blast from the past: when Republicans wanted to end slavery

Brown was a pivotal figure, the forgotten 'father' of sorts of the Civil Rights Movement

I'm never glad when anyone is killed
 

Yet his execution had a powerful influence on citizens

Unless it is an unborn baby?

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11. No. I'm opposed to capital punishment.


Unless it is an unborn baby?

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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2013, 03:33:14 PM »
Quote from: dutch508 on June 29, 2013, 02:49:57 PM
Robert E. Lee was the officer in charge of putting down Brown's little revolution. He was a Colonel in the Army. The US Army.

If I remember right, he was leading US MARINES against Brown at Harpers Ferry.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2013, 03:46:54 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on June 29, 2013, 03:33:14 PM
If I remember right, he was leading US MARINES against Brown at Harpers Ferry.

Quite correct.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2013, 04:51:05 PM »
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I found a Yankee officer related to my Hubby's family that road until the horse died of exertion to get the help John Brown needed at Harpers Ferry.   
The Yankee army arrested and hanged John Brown, who was a deranged murderer.

Every time someone quotes DUmmy vestanumbers I appreciate "ignore" a little more.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2013, 04:59:02 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 29, 2013, 04:51:05 PM
The Yankee army arrested and hanged John Brown, who was a deranged murderer.

Every time someone quotes DUmmy vestanumbers I appreciate "ignore" a little more.


Not bad GoBucks, ------The family member was a Yankee out of Mass.  No wonder poor John Brown got no help.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2013, 05:21:46 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 29, 2013, 04:51:05 PM
The Yankee army arrested and hanged John Brown, who was a deranged murderer.

Every time someone quotes DUmmy vestanumbers I appreciate "ignore" a little more.

John Brown wasn't deranged, he was just ahead of his time.  People assumed that he was crazy because he was a white man who was willing to die defending black men.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2013, 05:42:00 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 29, 2013, 04:51:05 PM
The Yankee army arrested and hanged John Brown, who was a deranged murderer.

Every time someone quotes DUmmy vestanumbers I appreciate "ignore" a little more.



There was no "Yankee Army" during John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. The Army of the US was full of southerners as a military tradition existed in the southern states- and does to this day. It was also full of Irish, the latest in a long line of immigrants coming to America.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2013, 06:20:25 PM »
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in 2009 the Democrat party fully supported slavery. If DU had been around at that time anyone who stood against slavery would have been banned. Group think rules supreme at DU, as does the rat party.

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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2013, 06:54:27 PM »
Quote from: Delmar on June 29, 2013, 05:21:46 PM
John Brown wasn't deranged, he was just ahead of his time. 
He was a crazed abolitionist who murdered innocent people to make a political point.

Not much different from a muzzie bomber.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2013, 08:28:02 PM »
He was a psycho killer and raised his boys to be the same, whether the cause was ultimately regarded as good or bad, he was as brutal and deadly a piece of shit as anything bred in the Yugoslavian civil war.  Hell yes, I'm glad they hanged him.
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Re: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged?
« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2013, 10:11:58 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 29, 2013, 06:54:27 PM
He was a crazed abolitionist who murdered innocent people to make a political point.

Not much different from a muzzie bomber.
That's the way it's recorded in the history books--the ones written by democrats, anyway.
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