Posted: 11/12/2009 3:00:34 AM EDT
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THE OLD FELLOW WASN'T TOO FAR OFF THE MARK!
This is incredible, scroll down through the three pictures ... the last one is amazing. 
................and this guy died over a hundred years ago!! Some things never change... |
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BTW, the Democrats were the ones who were pro-slavery and Lincoln and the Republicans thought weren't too enamoured with the idea.
During the Civil War, the Peace Democrats were chanting peace at any price and would have allowed the Confederacy to secede. They were seen as traitors by the soldiers. Some things don't change. |
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BTW, the Democrats were the ones who were pro-slavery and Lincoln and the Republicans thought weren't too enamoured with the idea. The Continental Congress was, too. Jefferson, a slave owner himself, with 100 slaves, struggled when drafting the Declaration. He couldn't really say "All men are created equal" and then have exceptions. So, he blasted the institution of slavery in his origanal Declaration of Independence, only to have the Congress remove every reference to it. The slavery issue was left for another day, and that day was the Civil War. It goes waaaay back, so referring simply to Demograts and Republicans (a party which didn't exist then) is too simplistic. |
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Let me guess... chain email?  Complete Bullshit.Sorry you fail. It is a real tombstone. And a real person. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25400862 Nathaniel GRIGSBY. Son of Reuben Davis GRIGSBY Sr. & Nancy BARKER. Born 11, October 1811 in Nelson Co., KY. Died 16, April 1890 in Attica, Harper Co., KS. Buried in Attica, Harper Co., KS. He was a Civil War veteran of the 2nd Lt. Co. G, 10th Indiana Cavalry. He was a farmer. Nathaniel was a dear friend of Abraham Lincoln. After Lincoln moved to Illinois in 1830, Nathaniel moved with his father to Carroll Co., MO in 1855. In 1860, he was living in Norborne. He wrote to Lincoln and received an appointment as a Republican Precinct Committee Man. He placed Lincoln's name on the 1860 ballot. All of Natty's neighbors were Southern sympathizers. He had been talking about electing Lincoln for president in town. One morning at about 2 or 3 a.m. a neighbor rode up and told Natty not to light any lights. The neighbor wanted to warn him that his neighbors were planning to murder him and if he wanted to live he should be on his way. After the warning, Natty moved back to Spencer Co., IN where he and four of his five sons enlisted in Company C <sic> 10th IN Cavalry (Richmond Davis did not enlist). Natty was named 2nd Lieutenant. The family apparently returned to Carroll Co., MO but in 1885 they moved to Harper Co., KS and settled on a farm in the extreme northwest corner of the county. In 1890, they moved to Attica, KS. Nathaniel was buried in Attica. |