Posted on 03/21/2009 7:02:03 AM PDT by Liz
They received no such assurances. It was the states that were ratifying, not the other way around. And in each and every ratification document was wording to the effect that they agreed to the Constitution as passed out of convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. And the states could add any assumption they wanted to their ratification documents and if the Constitution did not allow for it then their assumptions were meaningless.
This was not honoured obviously by Lincoln.
One does not honor illegal actions like rebellion.
The CSA / South did not “start” the war. Lincoln & the North purposely started the war when he invaded the sovereign CSA & even instigated the war when he attempted to rearm the former Union forts within the CSA thereby giving Lincoln the excuse he required when his troops were resisted.
So which did Lincoln do? Start the war? Or instigate it? Make up your mind, please.
Sumter was the property of the federal government. Built with federal funds on land deeded to the government free and clear by act of the South Carolina legislature. South Carolina had no legal claims to it whatsoever, and if the federal government merely insisted on retaining ownership of what was their's to begin with then there is nothing illegal in that. The South chose war when they chose to bombard the fort into surrender after failing to starve the garrison out.
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And rejected in other cases, such as South Carolina [State v. Fleming (1848)] and North Carolina [State v. Weaver (1798)]. Whatever the law said, though, the fact is that you can probably count the number of convictions of whites for killing slaves in the south on your fingers. When cases were brought, acquittals were far more common.
In State v. Fleming, 2 Strob. 464 (1848), the Supreme Court held the the charge to be manslaughter and not murder, agreeing with the 1821 law. As it was, it held a penalty of $500 and 6 months in jail. Murder of a slave was punishable since 1740, and punishable by death without benefit of clergy since 1821. To name a few:
In South Carolina: State vs. Cheatwood, 2 Hill. 459 (1834).
In Tennessee: Fields v. The State Of Tennessee, 1 Yerger 156 (1829).
In North Carolina the legislature made the murder of a slave illegal in 1774, the courts upheld in: State v. Reed, 2 Hawk 454. (1823), State v. Hoover, 20 NC 393 (1839), State v. Motley 7 Rich. 327 (1854).
In Mississippi: The State of Mississippi v. Jones, Walker 83 (1820).
otherwise, EVERYONE here will assume you are LYING again, as you USUALLY do. (even the members of "the DY coven" assume, absent evidence to the contrary, that you ALWAYS lie, even when THE TRUTH would serve your cause better. it's evidently a psychosis.)
laughing AT you.
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“I hope John Brown is where he belongs. In Hell.”
Right along side of that skinny lawyer Lincoln!
We must keep aware of what if any God these Murder defenders worship..After all ~I'd place ten dollars to your one that if Jesus walked down Yankee Ave in Sickcago and talked poorly of “Saint Lincoln” they would argue with him also!
Amen to that! :)
i suspect that more BLACKS (alone) have died from ABORTION than died in slavery in 400+ years.
WHY doesn't anyone much care about that HOLOCAUST (outside the PRO-life movement, of course)???
fyi, i'm for equal rights for MINORITIES & WOMEN, including UNBORN ones.(to any females who may be reading this: this is "a WOMEN's ISSUE", as over 80% of aborted babies are LITTLE GIRLS!!!)
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