Three Races

1. Howard H. Callaway

For a Southerner speaking to Southerners, Congressman Howard H. Callaway sounded an unusual note last Independence Day when he opened his campaign for the Georgia governorship. Callaway chose to invoke not a Confederate hero and the Civil War but a Northerner and the American Revolution. It was Captain Parker of Massachusetts who told his troops at Concord, “Don’t fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have war — let it begin here.”

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1. Howard H. Callaway

For a Southerner speaking to Southerners, Congressman Howard H. Callaway sounded an unusual note last Independence Day when he opened his campaign for the Georgia governorship. Callaway chose to invoke not a Confederate hero and the Civil War but a Northerner and the American Revolution. It was Captain Parker of Massachusetts who told his troops at Concord, “Don’t fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have war — let it begin here.”