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Old 01-13-11, 09:00 PM   #18
Takeda Shingen
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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo View Post
Wow Takeda - can you link some info on Jefferson that shows that? I have never heard it before and am interested where that data is.
http://millercenter.org/academic/ame...ys/biography/3

Go to the second section entitled 'The Campaign and Election of 1800'. It's in the third paragraph:

Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes

Here's a collection of some others with reference links:

http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/29/so...ck-ads-circa-1

And someone posted a mock attack ad on YouTube using the various quotes. Very, very funny:

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