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To: Ohioan
I would suggest that you read Article I, Sec. 9, of the Constitution...

I'm familiar with it....what's your point?

and stop trying to pick fights with people from...

Irrelevant.

Or maybe you would consider the views of Massachusetts' Senator Daniel Webster...

Seen it. Sad to see that he was an apologist for the Peculiar Institution. I guess it goes to show that even great minds can be wrong. Conservatives need to come together on that issue, while continuing to recognize that the Constitution deliberately left issues of health, safety & morals to the States.

Lost Causers can't have it both ways. You can't claim that slavery was purely an individual state issue at the same time as the southern states DEMANDED that the federal government involve itself in forcing Free States to participate in the unseemly act of hunting and repatriating runnaway slaves.

58 posted on 04/03/2015 9:05:50 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr
If you are familiar with Article I, Section 9, your last paragraph makes no sense.

Your derogatory language, aimed at other Americans who take pride in their ancestry--certainly proper in a Federation dedicated in large part to the "posterity," of its founders--can scarcely be defended.

I admit that I have no clue as to your motives.

59 posted on 04/03/2015 9:23:20 AM PDT by Ohioan
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