What can I say? It was early.
... I made the assumption that you did not know that the US had previously ended the transatlantic slave trade and that it was that trade to which you thought the Confederacy had “preserved.”
The U.S. outlawed the importation of slaves in 1807. I don't think anyone really believes that ended the transatlantic slave trade, either to the U.S. or elsewhere. What the Confederacy preserved was the importing of slaves from the U.S., clearly and distinctly in their constitution.
It is clear that you (like the CSA itself) understand that the US was indeed a “foreign country” and that allowing slaves into the Confederacy from the US was an act of importation. Of course, you are right about that.
Again you are incorrect. We were talking about the Confederate Constitution and the fact that it preserved slave imports. Given my past posts, no rational person would conclude I agreed with them that the Confederacy was an independent country, regardless of what they themselves might have believed.
It did not immediately occur to me how far and how fast you have adopted the Confederate view.
Yeah, I know. Missing the mark as completely as you often do is not something arrived at quickly. It takes time to twist things so badly out of shape.
” Given my past posts, no rational person would conclude I agreed with them that the Confederacy was an independent country . . .”
People grow. I continue to give you the benefit of the doubt every chance I get.
The Federal Register is only an estimated two million pages now. Who knows, when it reaches two million, five hundred thousand pages - including 40,000 pages of homosexual cupcake production quota rules - you too may regret the disaster at Appomattox.