Elektratig found the most delightful thing, and wrote about it on his blog — Georgia politician and future vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens wondering about this new guy on the hustings, Abraham Lincoln, and comparing him to Millard Fillmore, in a letter from July 1860. You gotta read it there.
You couldn’t make this stuff up. Real history is always better than fiction. There’s a delightful surprise around every bend of the river.
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[…] Bathtub is one of millions of DYI internet portals. Recently someone found a letter, written by Alexander Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederate States of America. In 1860, the election of Abraham […]
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Yes, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X58RPS665V0 , yes he could. :P
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