They also "struck out" all references to slavery. Look it up.
As a friend, I encourage you not to start a new year tethered to your losing argument from last year. Just let it go quietly and slip out the back door.
Great. Start off the new year being as much of an obnoxious imbecile as you were in the old year. That's sure to take you far in life.
This thread ran out of steam two weeks ago but some witless fool started it back up again. I think he feeeeeeeeeeeels that he is the reincarnation of John Wayne.
“Great. Start off the new year being as much of an obnoxious imbecile as you were in the old year.”
I regret your decision to inject personal rancor into discussions of historical issues.
That is not what Thomas Jefferson said.
“The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho’ their people have very few slaves themselves yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.”
Jefferson never states, never writes that anyone struck out the reference to the King “exciting those very people to rise in arms among us . . .”
That was because it was not struck out . . . only transmogrified to the euphemism “he has excited domestic insurrections. . .”
Read what he wrote again. For the first time.