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Rouse, my brave boys, up, up and away; press hard on the foe ere the dawning of day;
Look well to your steeds so gallant in chase. May they never give o´er till they win in the race.
2nd Verse:
Rouse, my brave boys, up, up and away; press hard on the foe ere the dawning of day;
Look well to your steeds so gallant in chase. May they never give o´er till they win in the race.
The background midi sound file for “The Call of Quantrill” comes from “The Borderland Collection”,
Copyrighted 1998, Scott K. Williams, All Rights Reserved. Price Camp SCV
Via Susan
With one eye on the presidency – he’d settle for “vice” – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon made the rounds of the morning news shows this past Sunday to rationalize his mishandling of the freak show being staged in Ferguson.
As a would-be national candidate in an increasingly leftist party, Nixon has his critics. According to the Washington Post, some see him as “too moderate for the Democratic Party’s base.”
Again according to the Post, Nixon has had an “uneasy relationship with black voters.”
On Sunday, the ambitious governor used the platform provided by CBS’ “Face the Nation” to disprove his critics and to prove he can pander enough to represent the national party.
“I think it had an incendiary effect,” Nixon said of Michael Brown’s starring role in now famous convenience-store video. The Ferguson police, he argued, were “attempting to besmirch a victim of a shooting, shot down in his own street, a young man.”
Besmirch? There was a time in not so distant past when then-Attorney General Jay Nixon was not so squeamish about besmirching the state’s citizens. In fact, he went shockingly beyond the besmirching stage.
For Heather Johnson* and 14 other Missouri citizens, there is no forgetting and no forgiving. Allow me to explain.