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From: "Verne R. Horton" <>
Subject: Re: Scots-Irish/Appalachia
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:50:56 -0800


Mac,

I think you've hit on something that most all "criticism" of historical
figures ignores. Criticism of anyone, from the past to the present, can
only be done in light of the culture in which they live...not the
"critic's".

Regards - Verne
Verne R. Horton
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Researching the Stewart and Horton Families

> I'm wondering if Old Hickory wasn't a product of his times, and if many,
many others in >the same era might not have perpetrated the same crime
against humanity (as
>the Trail of Tears most assuredly was). In other words, I'm more nearly
>ready to indict the entire generation or era than I am to pick out
>Andrew jackson as an unusually bad, rude or stupid example.
>
>Mac McCutchan
>
>

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