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Old 10-04-2019, 20:24   #1218
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Originally Posted by tom kelly View Post
... 9 April 1865, when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered and ended the 1st Civil War.
Concur. The top-hatted despot proved that all that stuff in the founding documents about a voluntary coalition of states & that a state could peacefully leave when it and the Republic were at odds was a load of horsehockey if the right despot had the right amount of power.
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