franklin pierce
Michael Todd Landis has no tuck for the doughfaces, northern Democrats who worked to expand the slave power in pre-Civil War America. He blames them directly for the Civil War,.
Another recent old post rediscovered makes me realize why Franklin Pierce went in hard and came out soft. Turns out he ranks pretty high in the presidential sexiness polls.
Joke from an 1850s quasi-pornographic newspaper: "Why is Ex-President Pierce like the privates of a man? Because he went in Hard and came out Soft." I'm not actually sure what the joke means. Perhaps monetary policy. But any Franklin Pierce sex joke must be shared....