Posted by baseball55 on September 22, 2013, at 19:23:26
In reply to Re: Lincoln, posted by sigismund on September 22, 2013, at 19:11:26
As an American, I should know more of the history, but history was never my strong suit. I thought that the slave states were not represented in the legislature, because they had seceded.
Daniel Day Lewis won the Academy Award for best actor for Lincoln. What's that -- like his third Academy Award.
> OK, I have a question. You know how in the film there has just been an election? I think. And presumably the congressmen from the Confederate States are not present?
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> How was the election undertaken? OK, with difficulty.
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> The congressmen from the southern states are not present? They are in some southern assembly?
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