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Roger Norton||||||||Rjnorton@Att.Net||2006/08/02||04:27:09||Military Roger Norton||||||||[email protected]||2006/08/02||04:27:09||Military Justice and Ned Spangler||I wonder if Ned Spangler's sentence was what he deserved (6 years given; served 4). Although there was only a small amount of evidence against him, one key thing was that immediately after the assassination, there was a lot of commotion backstage. Jake Rittersback, who also worked at Ford's, said he tried to chase after Booth, but that Spangler hit him in the face and said, "Don't say which way he went."LBCRLBCRWriting in "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies" author Michael Kauffman notes that many years later Harry Hawk (the actor on stage when Lincoln was shot) admitted in an interview that he actually said the words Rittersback attributed to Spangler. Hawk said that he was scared, dazed, and confused during the uproar and simply wanted to keep out of any trouble. Joanne Cole||||boulder||||[email protected]||2006/08/02||14:22:53||looking for Brent Greer||Hi, I am trying to reach Brent Greer, who has posted to the mailbag in the past. Thank you, Joanne Cole p. zall||||San Marino||CA||[email protected]||2006/08/05||18:51:36||Mary Lincoln/Dolley Madison||The item captioned 47111 asks about the Mary/Dolley connection. I suspect the connection is rather between Mary Lincoln's family and Dolley Madison's sister who mmarried into it. Laurie Verge||||Clinton||MD||[email protected]||2006/08/05||20:23:13||Sad News||I'm sure that many of our ALO correspondents are familiar with and/or members of The Lincoln Forum. We just received word that the Forum's great supporter and treasurer, Mr. Charles Platt of Colorado, passed away today following complications from heart surgery. He will be sorely missed in the Lincoln community. David Lockmiller||||San Francisco||California||[email protected]||2006/08/06|| 05:37:21||Response to "Lincoln Questions" of Today||"We are planning a Lincoln lecture series at New Salem State Park dedicated to continuing on the legacy of Lincoln by discussing current issues of social justice and equality, that Lincoln himself would be interested in if he were alive today."LBCRLBCR"The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds. -- Reply to Workingmen of New York, March, 21, 1864LBCRLBCRP.S. In the future, please capitalize at least the first letter in the name "Lincoln;" he deserves it. Kent Tucker||||Rantoul||Illinois||[email protected]||2006/08/07||05:45:15||Big "L"||Yes, get the "l" out of here. It's a capital offense. Laurie Verge||||Clinton||MD||[email protected]||2006/08/11||12:52:38||Tudor Hall||Tudor Hall,the Booth ancestral home in Bel Air, Maryland, has been purchased by Harford County to be preserved as a museum-type venue highlighting the rich theatrical heritage of the Booth family, one of the first true American dynasties of the theatre world. Its role as birthplace of John Wilkes Booth will be a secondary focus. Randal Berry||||||||[email protected]||2006/08/11||17:37:27||Tudor Hall|| Dang! ...and I was going to buy it and buy up all the horrible books written about the assassination and store them there!LBCRFoiled again! Laurie Verge||||Clinton||MD||[email protected]||2006/08/11||18:48:54||Mary Lincoln||Believe it or not, a MUSICAL, "The Strange Case of Mary Todd Lincoln," based on her insanity trial, will have a limited try-out run at the York Theatre in New York City's East Side from September 5-17. The playwright is June Bingham, widow of Congressman Jonathan Bingham. I guess if Sondheim can turn "Assassins" into a musical, Bingham can do insanity. Cheryl||||||||||2006/08/14||16:33:09||||Does anyone know anything about Harry Hawk--whatever became of him? He was the only actor on stage at Ford Theater when President Lincoln was shot. Michael W. Kauffman||||Owings||MD||[email protected]||2006/08/16|| 00:16:10||20736||Harry Hawk continued his career as an actor long after the assassination. He eventually retired to the Isle of Jersey, just off the coast of Normandy. He died there on May 28, 1916 and was buried in the local cemetery at the tiny village of Grouville. Randal Berry||||||||[email protected]||2006/08/16||22:07:07||Harry Hawk||Holy Cow!LBCRWhy am I not surprised that Michael Kauffmann would come up with the answer!LBCRJust goes to show folks, Mr. Kauffmann IS the reigning AUTHORITY on the Lincoln assassination.LBCRHANDS DOWN!LBCRIMHO.LBCRLBCRRandal Berry Cheryl||||||||||2006/08/17||08:08:51||||Thanks for the info on Harry Hawk, Mr, Kauffman. Paul||||||||||2006/08/17||21:16:12||Harry hawk||Wow Mr Kauffman-you are amazing! LBCRIf Hawk lived until 1916, how old was he when he died? David Lockmiller||||San Francisco||California||[email protected]||2006/08/19|| 22:48:47||What primary issues would Abraham Lincoln be interested in now?||On August 6, I responded on the Friends of Lincoln mailbag with a brief suggestion to a posting by Jesse Sullivan on July 21. I choose now to expand upon that suggestion for the reasons that were stated in the original posting.LBCRLBCR LBCR LBCRReply to New York Workingmen�s Democratic Republican AssociationLBCRLBCR LBCR LBCRGentlemen of the Committee March 21, 1864LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRThe honorary membership in your Association, as generously tendered, is gratefully accepted.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRYou comprehend, as your address shows, that the existing rebellion, means more, and tends to more, than the perpetuation of African Slavery � that it is, in fact, a war upon the rights of all working people. Partly to show that this view has not escaped my attention, and partly that I cannot better express myself, I read a passage from the Message to Congress in December 1861.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCR�It continues to develop that the insurrection is largely, if not exclusively, a war upon the first principle of popular government � the rights of the people. Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of the people.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCR�In my present position, I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning despotism.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCR�It is not needed, nor fitting here, that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions; but there is one point, with its connexions, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above labor, in the structure of government. Labor is prior to, and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy pf protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital, producing mutual benefits.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCR�Let them [those that labor] beware of surrendering a political power which they already posses, and which, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till all of liberty shall be lost. The struggle of today, is not altogether for today � it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.� Abraham Lincoln December 3, 1861.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRThe views then expressed remain unchanged, nor have I much to add. None are so deeply interested to resist the present rebellion as the working people. Let them beware of prejudice, working division and hostility among themselves. The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working people by other working people. It should never be so. The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCR********************************LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCR�If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.� Thus, began Lincoln�s famous �House Divided� speech (Springfield, Illinois June 16, 1858). One hundred forty-two years following President Lincoln�s reply to the workingmen of New York, one must question where does this democracy now stand and whither are we tending in terms of honoring President Lincoln�s words of guidance that �[t]he strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.� LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRAs to �where we are,� it is an undisputed fact that 45,000,000 Americans cannot afford health insurance. As to �whither we are tending,� in 43 states, workers who receive tips can be paid as little as $2.13 per hour if their tips bring them to the level of earning the federal minimum wage per hour, and, for the last nine years, agenda- controlling Congressional Republicans (the party of Lincoln) have refused to consider legislatively an increase in the current minimum wage of $5.15 per hour. LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRAnd, when these Republican politicians finally did permit this year legislative consideration of the issue, they cynically tied an enormous reduction in the estate tax for the far less than 1 per cent of wealthiest Americans to their acceptance of any increase in the minimum wage.
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