Lanterns of Liberty

Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Real "A-BOMB" of American History

Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Trey Roberts

This is an excerp of a speech, called "African Slavery: Cornerstone of the Southern Confederacy," given by Alexander H. Stephens, the Vice-President of the Confederate States of America in 1861, 3 months after the Democratic South suceded.

"...But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other though last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African sl...

Entering the Emancipation Chronicles

Posted by Chris Pilie, Monday, May 24, 2010

One can only speculate what things would be like if they had happened differently. One can look into the rear view mirror of life and try to guess what might have been if this event had turned out different or that battle lost or that decision changed. But history gives us irrefutable proof of what happened, how it happened, who was involved and what was the outcome. That is of course if the history we’re reading was written accurately and in its proper context.
Of all the aspects of Ameri...