Comments for Lincoln Studies http://www.lincolnstudies.com Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:12:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on John Y. Simon Day and Ulysses S. Grant Lecture by bob http://www.lincolnstudies.com/2009/09/28/john-y-simon-day-and-ulysses-s-grant-lecture/%/comment-page-1#comment-13750 bob Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:12:46 +0000 http://www.lincolnstudies.com/?p=465#comment-13750 I admire Frank Williams for his scholarship & professional accomplishments, but when I saw him on TV cooking Italian with Mary Ann Esposito he became my hero. Bravo, paisan! I admire Frank Williams for his scholarship & professional accomplishments, but when I saw him on TV cooking Italian with Mary Ann Esposito he became my hero. Bravo, paisan!

]]> Comment on Professor John Y. Simon by sandra742 http://www.lincolnstudies.com/2008/07/08/professor-john-y-simon/%/comment-page-1#comment-11044 sandra742 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:07:22 +0000 http://lincolnstudies.com/?p=380#comment-11044 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> Comment on Mentor Graham’s South Dakota Home by Alphonse Dattolo http://www.lincolnstudies.com/2007/04/20/mentor-grahams-south-dakota-home/%/comment-page-1#comment-10219 Alphonse Dattolo Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:23:35 +0000 http://lincolnstudies.com/?p=364#comment-10219 I HAVE BEEN A LINCOLN SCHOLAR FOR OVER 50 YEARS AND I HAVE BEEN A TERACHER/COLLEGE PROFESSOR FOR 38 YEARS. I DEEPLY RESPECT OLD SCHOOL TEACHING, AND MENTOR GRAHAM CERTAINLY BELONGS IN THIS CATAGORY. HE CERTAINLY DID NOT HAVE THE COMPUTER AT IS DISPOSIBLE-HE HAD BOOKS AND LOOK WHAT BECAME OF HIS MOST FAMOUS STUDENT-DR. ABRAHAM LICOLN! VIVA MENTOR GRAHAM!!!!!!! I HAVE BEEN A LINCOLN SCHOLAR FOR OVER 50 YEARS AND I HAVE BEEN A TERACHER/COLLEGE PROFESSOR FOR 38 YEARS. I DEEPLY RESPECT OLD SCHOOL TEACHING, AND MENTOR GRAHAM CERTAINLY BELONGS IN THIS CATAGORY. HE CERTAINLY DID NOT HAVE THE COMPUTER AT IS DISPOSIBLE-HE HAD BOOKS AND LOOK WHAT BECAME OF HIS MOST FAMOUS STUDENT-DR. ABRAHAM LICOLN! VIVA MENTOR GRAHAM!!!!!!!

]]> Comment on College Freshman Discovers Lincoln’s Fingerprint by Blog Divided » Post Topic » College Student Finds Lincoln Fingerprint http://www.lincolnstudies.com/2009/02/19/college-freshman-discovers-lincolns-fingerprint/%/comment-page-1#comment-10148 Blog Divided » Post Topic » College Student Finds Lincoln Fingerprint Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:17:49 +0000 http://www.lincolnstudies.com/?p=448#comment-10148 [...] the finding.  Though there is some debate over how many known Lincoln fingerprints exist (see this post from Sam Wheeler), Lupton claims this is actually the second one in the Miami University collection [...] [...] the finding.  Though there is some debate over how many known Lincoln fingerprints exist (see this post from Sam Wheeler), Lupton claims this is actually the second one in the Miami University collection [...]

]]> Comment on Alexander Stephens & His “Cornerstone Speech” by Arnie http://www.lincolnstudies.com/2007/03/21/alexander-stephens-his-cornerstone-speech/%/comment-page-1#comment-9694 Arnie Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:29:32 +0000 http://lincolnstudies.com/?p=339#comment-9694 O thank you for reposting my response to Cory. And if I may add another note for Cory: I realize my credentials are weak and suspect. I am an amateur historian. There ia website with essays from professionals whose credentials you may find infinitely more trusworthy who address this very issue. I found it most illuminating: www.etymonline.com/cw/cornerstone.htm. Scroll down through their contents till you reach "the Cornerstone Speech." I think you will enjoy his comments more than my feeble attempts to mimic them. Hope this helps. Arnie O thank you for reposting my response to Cory.
And if I may add another note for Cory:
I realize my credentials are weak and suspect. I am an amateur historian. There ia website with essays from professionals whose credentials you may find infinitely more trusworthy who address this very issue. I found it most illuminating:
http://www.etymonline.com/cw/cornerstone.htm.
Scroll down through their contents till you reach “the Cornerstone Speech.” I think you will enjoy his comments more than my feeble attempts to mimic them.
Hope this helps.
Arnie

]]> Comment on Alexander Stephens & His “Cornerstone Speech” by Arnie http://www.lincolnstudies.com/2007/03/21/alexander-stephens-his-cornerstone-speech/%/comment-page-1#comment-9693 Arnie Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:10:16 +0000 http://lincolnstudies.com/?p=339#comment-9693 May I be so bold as to ask why my response to Cory was removed? It was still posted as of yesterday, 5 August 09. Now today I find it erased. I thought it to be both courteous and factual. Was there something the site-master found offensive or inaccurate in it? I'd appreciate knowing just for the sake of improving upon my research and delivery, if nothing else. Thank you for your consideration. Arnie May I be so bold as to ask why my response to Cory was removed? It was still posted as of yesterday, 5 August 09. Now today I find it erased. I thought it to be both courteous and factual. Was there something the site-master found offensive or inaccurate in it? I’d appreciate knowing just for the sake of improving upon my research and delivery, if nothing else. Thank you for your consideration.
Arnie

]]> Comment on Alexander Stephens & His “Cornerstone Speech” by Arnie http://www.lincolnstudies.com/2007/03/21/alexander-stephens-his-cornerstone-speech/%/comment-page-1#comment-9593 Arnie Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:09:22 +0000 http://lincolnstudies.com/?p=339#comment-9593 Sorry, I've been away for a while. Thanks for re-posting my comment. Cory, I cannot speak to the character of historical figures whom I've never met. Alexander Stephens may have in fact been a racist, maybe not. From his life-history of DEEDS I cannot conclude he was. Perhaps from a single paragraph of a reporter's "sketch" of a single political oppurtunistic speech one might be tempted to conclude he was (but then, that same foolish standard would force one to conclude that Sonia Sotomayer is also a racist! Think about that!!). But you miss the point! Whether Stephens was racist or not is irrelevant. Stephens didn't write, sign or ratify the Confederate Constitution. His alledged remarks were not the official pronouncement of the Confederate government. He was neither President nor an esteemed member of the Confederate Congress (he was picked as Davis' running mate soley as a "ticket balancer"). His stump speech no more represented official government policy than Vice President Joe Biden's off-the-cuff statements about restricting mass transit due to the swine flu represented the official policy of the Obama administration (again, think about that!). Bottom line, to take a heresay sketch of a politically motivated speech from an out-of-the-loop V.P. (again, think Joe Biden) and conclude that it represented the sole and official motivation behind the Confederate cause is irresponsibly ludicrous, espcially in light of all the justifiable grievances the seceding States officially presented in their call for freedom and independence. I am not trying to be rude here, but please, fellow commenters, let's give benefit to the fact that there are two sides to every argument and that some mighty great and moral Statesmen threw their support, indeed their very lives, behind the Confederate cause. To conclude they were blind to the evils of our "peculiar institution" would be disingenuous. There must have been, and indeed there were, greater, more vital and urgent issues that caused them (just exactly as it did our slaveholding Founding Fathers) to fight for separation from a tyrannical government while condoning slavery at home. States' rights (or better, States' sovereignty) was THE issue! Slavery was just the hot-button dominoe in a long line of matters of local sovereignty that were at stake. Once the first dominoe falls, i.e., once the constitutional limit on federal interferrence in State affairs was breached, starting with the States' authority to determine the legality of slavery within their own borders (a sovereign right/power utilized by every northern State prior to 1866) the floodgates of federal tyranny would fling wide open to all manner of usurpations, the grievous consequences of which we today are justly suffering! Consider that! Gentlemen, I know could be wrong, and I welcome reproof, but please consider the evidence. Doesn't it deserve fair and full contemplation before we chalk up the entire Confederate motivation to a simple case of racism? Thank you for your patience. Arnie Sorry, I’ve been away for a while. Thanks for re-posting my comment.
Cory, I cannot speak to the character of historical figures whom I’ve never met. Alexander Stephens may have in fact been a racist, maybe not. From his life-history of DEEDS I cannot conclude he was. Perhaps from a single paragraph of a reporter’s “sketch” of a single political oppurtunistic speech one might be tempted to conclude he was (but then, that same foolish standard would force one to conclude that Sonia Sotomayer is also a racist! Think about that!!).
But you miss the point! Whether Stephens was racist or not is irrelevant. Stephens didn’t write, sign or ratify the Confederate Constitution. His alledged remarks were not the official pronouncement of the Confederate government. He was neither President nor an esteemed member of the Confederate Congress (he was picked as Davis’ running mate soley as a “ticket balancer”). His stump speech no more represented official government policy than Vice President Joe Biden’s off-the-cuff statements about restricting mass transit due to the swine flu represented the official policy of the Obama administration (again, think about that!).
Bottom line, to take a heresay sketch of a politically motivated speech from an out-of-the-loop V.P. (again, think Joe Biden) and conclude that it represented the sole and official motivation behind the Confederate cause is irresponsibly ludicrous, espcially in light of all the justifiable grievances the seceding States officially presented in their call for freedom and independence.
I am not trying to be rude here, but please, fellow commenters, let’s give benefit to the fact that there are two sides to every argument and that some mighty great and moral Statesmen threw their support, indeed their very lives, behind the Confederate cause. To conclude they were blind to the evils of our “peculiar institution” would be disingenuous. There must have been, and indeed there were, greater, more vital and urgent issues that caused them (just exactly as it did our slaveholding Founding Fathers) to fight for separation from a tyrannical government while condoning slavery at home. States’ rights (or better, States’ sovereignty) was THE issue! Slavery was just the hot-button dominoe in a long line of matters of local sovereignty that were at stake. Once the first dominoe falls, i.e., once the constitutional limit on federal interferrence in State affairs was breached, starting with the States’ authority to determine the legality of slavery within their own borders (a sovereign right/power utilized by every northern State prior to 1866) the floodgates of federal tyranny would fling wide open to all manner of usurpations, the grievous consequences of which we today are justly suffering! Consider that!
Gentlemen, I know could be wrong, and I welcome reproof, but please consider the evidence. Doesn’t it deserve fair and full contemplation before we chalk up the entire Confederate motivation to a simple case of racism?
Thank you for your patience.
Arnie

]]> Comment on Alexander Stephens & His “Cornerstone Speech” by Cory http://www.lincolnstudies.com/2007/03/21/alexander-stephens-his-cornerstone-speech/%/comment-page-1#comment-9149 Cory Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:54:22 +0000 http://lincolnstudies.com/?p=339#comment-9149 Arnie, Alexander Stephens was a racist...pure and simple. If he did, as you say he did...used a stump speach to gain support of an audience of slave owners...that's makes it even worse....I mean come on....that's like saying "I'm not racist, unless I need the support of a bunch of racists, then I'll just act racist for a little while to get what I want." Also, Stephen's thinly vailed "States Rights" arguement for succession...is a smoke and mirrors tactic as well......it was about one right....the right to own slaves! Don't be so ignorant by defending ignorance. Arnie,

Alexander Stephens was a racist…pure and simple. If he did, as you say he did…used a stump speach to gain support of an audience of slave owners…that’s makes it even worse….I mean come on….that’s like saying “I’m not racist, unless I need the support of a bunch of racists, then I’ll just act racist for a little while to get what I want.” Also, Stephen’s thinly vailed “States Rights” arguement for succession…is a smoke and mirrors tactic as well……it was about one right….the right to own slaves! Don’t be so ignorant by defending ignorance.

]]> Comment on Civil War in the News by Brandon Samuels http://www.lincolnstudies.com/2009/05/14/civil-war-in-the-news/%/comment-page-1#comment-7527 Brandon Samuels Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:27:36 +0000 http://www.lincolnstudies.com/?p=463#comment-7527 Hello Samuel, My name is Brandon and I enjoyed reading some of the posts you have on your blog. Since you have an interest in blogging, I thought that you might want to know about a new web site, timelines.com. The idea is to create an interactive historical record of anything and everything, based on specific events that combine to form timelines. We're trying to achieve a sort of user-created multimedia history, in which no event is too big or too small to record. Feel free to create events using excerpts and/or links from your blog. You will generate traffic and awareness of your blog, and you will be contributing to the recording of history. With your interest in the American Civil War, you should check out this timeline. So far it is a work in progress and we would definitely love for more people to contribute. http://timelines.com/topics/american-civil-war. Give us a try and let me know your thoughts. Thanks, Brandon Samuels brandon.samuels@timelines.com Hello Samuel,

My name is Brandon and I enjoyed reading some of the posts you have on your blog. Since you have an interest in blogging, I thought that you might want to know about a new web site, timelines.com. The idea is to create an interactive historical record of anything and everything, based on specific events that combine to form timelines. We’re trying to achieve a sort of user-created multimedia history, in which no event is too big or too small to record. Feel free to create events using excerpts and/or links from your blog. You will generate traffic and awareness of your blog, and you will be contributing to the recording of history.

With your interest in the American Civil War, you should check out this timeline. So far it is a work in progress and we would definitely love for more people to contribute. http://timelines.com/topics/american-civil-war.

Give us a try and let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,
Brandon Samuels
brandon.samuels@timelines.com

]]> Comment on Was Lincoln a Christian? by Rick Hawks http://www.lincolnstudies.com/2007/05/11/was-lincoln-a-christian/%/comment-page-1#comment-7484 Rick Hawks Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:01:54 +0000 http://lincolnstudies.com/wordpress/?p=12#comment-7484 I am impressed with all of your work on Linciln. I am particularly intrested in the section on the faith of Lincoln. I am trying get a copy of the December 7, 1864 article you referenced in the Freeport Weekly Standard. If you have a copy I would be interested in purchasing a copy. I look forward to retuing to you web site often. Keep up the great work. I am a pstor with a BA in History who loves primary sources. Rick Hawks 1-260 704-8719. I am impressed with all of your work on Linciln.

I am particularly intrested in the section on the faith of Lincoln.

I am trying get a copy of the December 7, 1864 article you referenced in the Freeport Weekly Standard.

If you have a copy I would be interested in purchasing a copy.

I look forward to retuing to you web site often.
Keep up the great work.

I am a pstor with a BA in History who loves primary sources.

Rick Hawks 1-260 704-8719.

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