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...contrast, seemed "odd" or "peculiar," as in this passage from a public letter he sent to Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New York Tribune, an antislavery paper: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that...
Marwan says would-be "martyrs" may use their waiting time to take care of business--paying off debts, resolving family matters, saying farewells. Some destroy any photographs of themselves; extremist Islamists regard pictures as a sign of vanity and therefore taboo. Others compile lists of the 70 people Islamic tradition says a "martyr" can guarantee a place in paradise. "I haven't got my 70 names yet--I don't think I know that many people," Marwan says, allowing himself a rare smile. Some dig graves for themselves and leave instructions on the way they should be buried--generally with...
...answer is that Lincoln recognized early on that he needed the ex-slave to help him destroy the Confederacy and preserve the Union. And so at a time when most whites would not let a black man cross their threshold, the President met Douglass three times at the White House and found a startling way to enlist him in his cause. What was in it for Douglass, who at the midpoint of the Civil War came to believe that Lincoln was a racist who argued that blacks and whites should be kept apart? Douglass came to realize that Lincoln...
...worst possible situation for a country to be in," says Francisco Tatad, a former minister and Senator who leads a civic group called Citizens Versus Corruption. "We want to be constitutional, but the constitution is no longer working. In order to rebuild it, we'll probably have to destroy it completely...
...Civil War Ransom. When Confederate soldiers surrounded Frederick, Md., in 1864 and threatened to destroy federal stores unless a ransom was paid, townspeople rustled up $200,000. The victorious Union never repaid the money, and outgoing Maryland Senator Charles Mathias has been trying to collect it for a dozen years. Last week he finally succeeded...