Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
By the 1860s property requirements for voting purposes were ancient history. Citizenship was the universal factor that granted voting rights.
Yes, but you still had the Apartied.

Events like the Boston Massacre leave little room for negotiation.
Yes, well people pelting soldiers with snowballs and rocks does put a pall on things.

Five men is not a massacre.

Too little, too late.
Apparently so.

The interpretation of freedom might have been flawed at the time, but the Constitution itself had it right from the beginning.
It was basically the same interpretation as the King of England had - but you elect your Kings.

[quote]Crazy Horse had plenty of blood on his hands.

OK, you can have another WTF LOL for that one - especially since you've spent the last few pages defending a man's right to bloody insurrection in the cause of Freedom. Crazy Horse's people were facing cultural annihalation at best.

By then he didn't want it.
Since way of not backing down.

Not the point, is it?