It's been worse.
“Rather than concede to the State of Missouri the right to demand that my Government shall not enlist the troops within her limits, or bring troops into the State whenever it pleases, or move its troops at its own will into, out of, or through the State; rather than concede to the State of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my Government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the State dead and buried,” Snead recalled Lyon saying 25 years later.
More here,
in The Columbia Daily Tribune. H/t, Kevin.
And we had us a brutal war in the shadows here in Missouri and Kansas.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2011/06/and_we_thought.html
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Jun 11 2011, 08:53 AM
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