Francesca da Rimini Quotes
I do suspect that this world is hell.
Action he advocated to his followers who attacked and killed pro-slavery advocates in Kansas. The civil war of Kansas was over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave state of a free state. If a free state, the free states would be able to block further slavery. If Kansas were to become a slave state, the slave states would have a sufficient majority to make all future expansion hospitable to slavery. The slavery forces started sending man and families into Kansas so that they could vote; the abolitionists did the same. Both sides armed and a war began with each faction trying to kill or drive the other faction out of Kansas before the vote. See {617388} and {612516}.
Depressed by the Union defeat at Fredericksburg in January of 1963, Lincoln observed of the presidency:
Francesca da Rimini (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃeska da (r)ˈriːmini]) or Francesca da Polenta (IPA: [franˈtʃeska da (p)poˈlɛnta]); 1255 – c. 1285) was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna. She was a historical contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.
