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i go to patrick henry college. [inaudible] >> absolutely it does i feel like our country is going into the wrong hands if you know what i mean. it's becoming darker and darker and i don't want that. i do not want that dark evil presence to take over our world and i want to fight to make that happen. i'm willing to give my life. that's what i want to do. thank you. >> i'm from outside of atlanta georgia. it happens to be all girls and it's very liberal my professors. i won hundred% stick out like a sore thumb. we talk about things and i tend to get shut down a lot. i don't want to talk about what i believe and i believe in so what assured by his? >> do not let them do that to you. do not let anyone scare you into submission. if anything let them feed your fire. let it make you study harder and find out more things. i want you to youtube video of william f. buckley and james baldwin at cambridge university in 1964. it's an amazing debate and every one of you should watch it. it's amazing and yes standup. do not give

in fact, i did my senior thesis in college on henry clay and the compromise of 1850. i have a depiction that you have which i'll show you subsequently. and so i've always had an interest in it. once i moved into this office and became the republican leader, we got interested in the history of this space and produced a pamphlet that sort of outlines the various things that occurred here over the years. >> so what did it look like in 1800? >> well, you know, everything was smaller then and there's a plaque out in the hall that says, points out that in 1800 this would have been shortly after they got here. the house of representatives actually met in this space and conducted the 36th ballot election that determined that thomas jefferson would be president instead of aaron about your. that occurred in in space. >> right in this space. of course, that was historically of enormous significance because burr was a scoundrel. jefferson's old adversary did a lot to influence jefferson's selection. he knew he was a scoundrel and the country needed to be saved from him. then they

henry himself. he gave me an opportunity to be able to work in williamsburg county at a very early age. as a matter of fact, we i graduated from charleston southern which was baptist college at that time he gave me my first real job working for eastern carolina business development corporation, which back during that time that was tremendously visionary because it was a community development corporation and about the business of trying to create opportunities for business development in the minority community. so, again i am so privileged and honored to be so connected. as i look and hear what bacarri and the congressman spoke to this afternoon about being vigilant and continuing to make sacrifice i think dr.king and mr.virgil and mr.johnny and e.i. lawrence and jesse lawrence all those folks that were members of the williamsburg county voters league, they would look and be extremely proud of the fact that we have been successful in electing officials to williamsburg county at the congressional level, national level through congress plan clyburn and our legislators, the senator and reserve. my cleanings on councils, the school board which was represented here today, all o

medical colleges where you could get degrees, but at that time, it was not required that you had formal medical training to practice as a physician. an apprenticeship kind of thing. that is what henry wirz did. in the years leading up to the civil war, henry wirz is a country doctor in rural louisiana. in 1861,war breaks out like most patriotic, southern men, dr. wirz enlists with the federal forces -- confederate forces. battle ofded at the southern pines and is wounded severely and his right arm and loses all use of his right arm. he is cited for bravery, and he is promoted to the rank of captain. after he recovers from his wounds, because he speaks fluent french and german as well as english he is sent on special , missions by the confederacy to europe, trying to get those european nations to come and support the confederacy and come out on the side of the south. spends most of 1863 in europe doing, not really clear what he he is doing, but he is on a diplomatic tour the confederacy. when he returned to the south , he is given the job of being the commandant of this new prison camp being built in southwest georgia, known as andersonville prison. at the time, wirz probably would