Hannah Davis on Wednesday said she got pushback almost immediately after she proposed opening a Young Americans for Liberty chapter at the school in upstate New York.
that ensued that lincoln use add chokehold on armstrong. and if you want to nope the details of the wrestling match, they re covered very well in a book by douglas wilson called honor s voice and also the evidence that survives from this is sifted very well by michael burlingame. whatever lincoln whatever holds lincoln used, the outcome that most people saw at the time and reported to us later was that lincoln acquitted himself well against jack armstrong, and that he gained the respect and leadership aura that he retained among common men forever after. now historians all know that this armstrong incident had great significance. they usually point to its political significance as leader of men, but i don t think they noticed the military significance. basically lincoln thought of battle as a big wrestling match. with not much science to it. and here s my evidence. at one point in august 1864 while u.s. grant was besieging petersberg, grant received a kind of panicky lett
significance. basically lincoln thought of battle as a big wrestling match. with not much science to it. and here s my evidence. at one point in august 1864 while u.s. grant was besieging petersberg, grant received a kind of panicky letter from general halek in washington suggesting the need to divert as many as 20,000 soldiers to the home front because they feared resistance to the draft. and, well, grant didn t want to do this and he thought that any domestic troubles could be handled by the state militias, and when lincoln saw, he agreed with grant and couldn t help intervening. he sent grant a terse telegram on august 17, 1864. and he said, quote, i have seen your dispatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. neither am i willing. hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible. don t break your hold. use a bulldog grip. chew and choke. that is the imagery of wrestling in new salem, some 33 years previously. and i think, once
and here s my evidence. at one point in august 1864 while u.s. grant was besieging petersberg, grant received a kind of panicky letter from general halek in washington suggesting the need to divert as many as 20,000 soldiers to the home front because they feared resistance to the draft. and, well, grant didn t want to do this and he thought that any domestic troubles could be handled by the state militias, and when lincoln saw, he agreed with grant and couldn t help intervening. he sent grant a terse telegram on august 17, 1864. and he said, quote, i have seen your dispatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. neither am i willing. hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible. don t break your hold. use a bulldog grip. chew and choke. that is the imagery of wrestling in new salem, some 33 years previously. and i think, once again, that ly lincoln s early experiences were configurative of the strategy and statesmanship as comman