Random observations OF LIBERTY

[transnomad]

Apparently, just before James Buchanan left office, he said to Abraham Lincoln that, if Lincoln was as happy to be entering the office as Buchanan was to be leaving it, he was a very happy man. …Which is kind of a dick thing to say, considering a third of the country had already seceded by then. And that Buchanan's policy toward the South was

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[squeemu]

Huh... that's an interesting point. And yeah, reading the history of the US way back in the early days, I always wonder how we made it where we did. Weird.