Tag: Montgomery Blair
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Black History Month, Dred Scott & Me
by Montgomery Blair Sibley, ©2021, blogging at Amo Probos (Feb. 16, 2021) — I thought it appropriate at the half-way mark of “Black History Month” to add my two bits of Black History which necessarily includes “White History”; as if the two really can be separated. On July 4, 1854, Dred Scott publishes a…
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Fort Sumter to Charlottesville: A Letter from Two Montgomery Blairs to Two Presidents
1861 LETTER TO LINCOLN PRESAGES TODAY’S “REBELLION” by Montgomery Blair Sibley, blogging at Amo Probos, ©2017 (Sep. 12, 2017) — On Friday, April 12, 1861, at 4:30 a.m., Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, firing for 34 straight hours. On Saturday, April 13th, the Fort was surrendered by its commanding…
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Conclusion: The Post & Email’s Interview of Montgomery Blair Sibley on His Article V Convention Lawsuit
“THEY HAVE TO RESPOND” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 14, 2015) — On Friday, The Post & Email conducted an interview with Montgomery Blair Sibley, who called upon Congress to make arrangements for a convention of states under Article V of the U.S. Constitution. Article V stipulates that in order for a convention to take place,…
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Dred Scot, NBCSL & Me
SHOULD RESIDENTS OF WASHINGTON, DC HAVE VOTING RIGHTS? by Montgomery Blair Sibley, ©2014, blogging at Amo Probos (Dec. 4, 2014) — The mess in Ferguson, Missouri put off my meeting with a representative of the NBCSL last week as their focus was obviously on the unfortunate events in that city. However, I was able to…
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The Object of the Secessionists is to Seize the Arsenal Here, With Its Seventy-Five Thousand Stand of Arms
“OF VITAL AND IMMEDIATE NECESSITY” by Montgomery Blair Sibley, ©2014, blogging at Amo Probos (Nov. 12, 2014) — The fourth of my five ancestors whose actions in their time of turmoil seem to predict what I would do in the Fall of 2014, is Francis Preston Blair, Jr. He was the brother of Montgomery Blair…
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History Repeats Itself
“I WOULD NOT HAVE HAD IT ANY OTHER WAY” by Montgomery Blair Sibley, ©2014, blogging at Amo Probos (Nov. 9, 2014) — Of course the ancestor whose has had the greatest determinative impact on the course of action I took in the Fall of 2014, whether by nature or nurture, was my great, great, grandfather,…