Replying to a message of Gene McAloon to Adam Flinton:

 GM> From: Gene McAloon 

 GM> On Wed, 21 May 2003 10:30:12 +0100, Adam Flinton
 GM>  wrote:

 >> i.e "beat them with the stick till they hand over some
land".....worked
 >> well for General Sherman too.

 GM> That is supposed to be a reference to what? What land was Sherman
 GM> trying to get Southerners to hand over? 

All of it.

 GM> Need I remind you a war was
 GM> going on and taking land is what one does in war?

 GM> You don't really want to get into a discussion about the American
 GM> civil war.

I don't think you do, either.

 GM> If nothing else, as a Brit you should feel ashamed that
 GM> your country supported the South for no other reason than you wanted
 GM> its cheap, slave produced cotton.

Actually, Gene, Lincoln's Unconstitutional Emancipation Proclamation was
issued precisely to prevent the Brits from
getting involved - and for no other reason.  The Royal Navy could easily
have broken Lincoln's blockade of southern ports.

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