[IrishCatholic]

Sorry. You don't get to call the game.
It was a weak example and a strawman.
It was about slavery. My original post showed that clearly and no revisionism/NeoConfederate lies can change it.

Your vaunted failed slave empire failed and you can't resurrect it. You can't whitewash it. You can't co-opt the present states rights fight anymore than the gays can co-opt the civil rights movement. Same mentality and equally flawed.

[lentulusgracchus]

Sorry. You don't get to call the game.

Sorry, I do. You're wrong.

It was a weak example and a strawman.

Not a strawman at all. The whole point of the Freesoil boomlet was to exclude not slaves, but Southerners, from the Territories, and to ensure that all the States that joined the Union henceforward would be "anti-slavery" States, i.e. anti-Southern ones, so that the Millocracy, merchants, and banksters could eventually break the agriculturalists.

That's why John Quincy Adams fought so bitterly for ten years to keep Texas out of the Union, from 1836 until partway through 1845. He also saw to it that the Texas economy starved for cash. That's real enmity -- admit it, it's identical to your own -- and Adams started it.