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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 27, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> How, Gene, do you think Grant felt about the morality of slavery?    
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I could only guess that as a military man he was pretty pragmatic and  
not much troubled by morality. So I read the entry in Wikipedia. You  
are correct, his wife was of a slave-owning family. But it does appear  
that he had moral reservations. His experiences in the Mexican- 
American War caused him moral angst.

From Wikipedia: In the 1880s he wrote that the war was unjust,  
accepting the theory that it was designed to gain land open to  
slavery. He wrote in his memoirs about the war against Mexico: "I was  
bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which  
resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a  
weaker nation"
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On Apr 28, 2008, at 6:11 AM, keith bellinger wrote:

> Crossing the Roadlilies
> By bartermn
>
> 7/30/03
>
> The first homesteaders didn't have much time to fuss with flowers. The
> ones they did plant needed simple beauty and rock hardiness. Daylilies
> were a logical choice, the lemon (yellow) and the tawny (orange) were
> popular farmyard plantings and soon spread to line country roads.
> Grandma called them "ditch lilies;" they were "road lilies" to my
> father. Those fancy ones we buy at garden centers and admire along
> interstate highways arrived by a different route.

Well now. Thank you, Keith, for that fine presentation.

Coincidently, my apple youngsters arrived from Stark Bros. Nursery  
with the gift of six lilly bulbs which now reside in the Christina  
Garden behind the house. I look forward to their show.