re: Petition to rename Lee Circle to Leah Circle

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What is sad, and amusing, is that you’re actually wrong. And your attempt, like so many of your ilk, to look clever, simply reveals your ignorance and apparent unwillingness to educate yourself. That is the problem with, you people. You believe you’ve got the truth, like some Baptist preacher, but you’re actually uneducated morons who the rest of the world must suffer. I would caution you about putting your foot in your mouth. But I don’t think it would help. Slavery was the issue of the day, but it what it did was simply expose deep political and cultural cleavages between the north and south. One was a mercantile society, the other, a backwards looking and largely feudal construction. They were not compatible, and politics in Washington had devolved into mutual attempts to dominate the other. This could not, and would not last. This is clear from period letters, where you see southerners writing about the war as a defense against political slavery, their expression, at the hands of the north. Northerns by comparison were consumed by the idea of union. They could not stomach the idea of losing the south and seeing the United States accordingly diminished.

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Perhaps don't name it after a person at all?

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