[Vermont Lt]

I am not arguing that. I am asking if another 25 years in chains is worth it? I argue it was not.

AND the problems associated with slaves running to the north would have lead to another war.

We can agree to disagree, but holding others in bondage is simply not right.

[CodeToad]

“but holding others in bondage is simply not right.”

So why did the North do it? One could argue that if it weren’t for the civil war the North, too, would have kept slavery alive for some time. You seem to assume, wrongly, that the North had clean hands about slavery.

[rawcatslyentist]

Slavery is an obomination.

Now buy what we tell you to buy, or we will fine/tax/punish you!!!!

Wait who won what war when?

[Tzfat]

We can agree to disagree, but holding others in bondage is simply not right.

Which is Nugent's point. Lincoln's tyranny gave us a Federal government that in the span of less than two generations enslaved the rest of the nation. Go read the so called "Emancipation Proclamation" and ask yourself why Lincoln "freed" slaves in southern territory, but by decree did not in Federally held territory (even listing the parishes in Lousina that were not under Federal control at the time). You should see that "emancipation" was only an excuse to enslave the entire nation. Tyranny was not invented by B H Obama. He learned it from others, including the first Republican President.