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May. 1st, 2014
Cats and Birds
May. 1st, 2014 09:38 amA murdered bird
laid out pretty
on the patio.
The cats used to at least try to hide this dark side of themselves from me. Funny, the bird is not eaten into or ripped up. It is as though it was enough just to kill the thing. That’s not so bad. I like birds, but I am more concerned about my cats’ health, and I don’t think eating birds is good for that.
laid out pretty
on the patio.
The cats used to at least try to hide this dark side of themselves from me. Funny, the bird is not eaten into or ripped up. It is as though it was enough just to kill the thing. That’s not so bad. I like birds, but I am more concerned about my cats’ health, and I don’t think eating birds is good for that.
1855 Lincoln On Slavery
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Lincoln confessed that he saw no easy solution to the problem of slavery. “If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution.” His “first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, - to their own native land.” Yet that was impractical: “whatever of high hope, (as I think there is) there may be in this, in the long run, it’s sudden execution is impossible.” Should all such slaves “landed there in a day, they would all perish in the next ten days.” Moreover, “there are not surplus shipping and surplus money enough in the world to carry them there in many times ten days.”
If colonization was not feasible, what alternatives remained? “Free them all, and keep them among us as underlings?” It was not clear “that this betters their condition.” Still, Lincoln said, “I think I would not hold one in slavery.” What else could be done? “Free them, and make them politically and socially, our equals?” Lincoln confessed that “my own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not.”
-- Michael Burlingame, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life” (volume 1, paperback edition 2013, p. 380)
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Lincoln confessed that he saw no easy solution to the problem of slavery. “If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution.” His “first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, - to their own native land.” Yet that was impractical: “whatever of high hope, (as I think there is) there may be in this, in the long run, it’s sudden execution is impossible.” Should all such slaves “landed there in a day, they would all perish in the next ten days.” Moreover, “there are not surplus shipping and surplus money enough in the world to carry them there in many times ten days.”
If colonization was not feasible, what alternatives remained? “Free them all, and keep them among us as underlings?” It was not clear “that this betters their condition.” Still, Lincoln said, “I think I would not hold one in slavery.” What else could be done? “Free them, and make them politically and socially, our equals?” Lincoln confessed that “my own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not.”
-- Michael Burlingame, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life” (volume 1, paperback edition 2013, p. 380)
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