Posted on 05/29/2011 2:46:36 PM PDT by BigReb555
Uncle Bob Brown, a former servant of the Davis family and a passenger on the train, saw the many flowers that the children had laid on the side of the railroad tracks. Brown was so moved by this beautiful gesture that he wept uncontrollably.
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Horse hockey. Don’t blame the South for slavery. Blame the Yankee slave traders.
Yea...hey butthead....slavery was protected under law. LAW.....
Actually, the first slaves were sold by British slave traders. The Yankees were latecomers to that game, and became involved as the British stopped slavery under Wilberforce.
My whole point is that the South didn’t introduce slavery.
The entire Southern economy was very much dependent on slavery, whereas the North became industrial. Many good men in power knew that slavery needed to go, but had no easy solution to the problem. Then came the abolitionists......
One thing about Southrons, we don’t like people butting into our business.
“Slavery was protected under LAW”
And rape, when committed against a slave at the order of slave owners, was protected under law. Assault, when committed against a slave at the order of a slave owner was protected under law. Theft, when committed against a slave at the order of the slave owner, was protected under law.
The southern gentlemen committed treason in an attempt to further and extend slavery. The legitimately constituted US government, would not permit such treason, and was able to find many allies that would help such a good government against such an evil cause. At the end, the laws were thankfully, changed.
Your canard is that I issued canards. Rather I provided facts. That you assert that a fact is a canard doesn’t mean it is so.
In fact, considering your past history of error, I would reconsider if you asserted that the moon was NOT made of green cheese.
You just don’t get the big picture....Slaves were property. I suggest you read the Dred Scott Decision.
As property, the Federal Government had no right to interfere.
Neither did a bunch of nosey Yankee Abolitionist.
And the Federal government didn’t interfere, until the Southern Gentlemen committed treason.
Secession is not treason. If it had been, Jeff Davis would have been tried and convicted.
Trying to “puff-up†a supercilious argument you are having with someone else by sending tripe to me?
Unless mercy was exercised, to free an old, discredited, and senile man.
As PeaRidge notes, the Federalist papers are of no constitutional import, and so Madison’s assertion that the states which ratified the Constitution had committed secession in them is of no value.
Or if you prefer, they retained their representation in the US under the A of C until the A of C transferred its authority to the new US of A under the current Constitution.
You lose either way.
Thanks for your agreement that the US had not acted to interfere with slavery in the various states where it unfortunately existed.
That means the rational of the southern gentlemen in their treason was false. So they were liars as well as traitors.
Gosh, I haven’t seen such bad spelling in weeks.
And now the servants' descendants get to rape, rob and murder those who never had any slaveholding ancestors by the tens of thousands per year.
Yay, way to go North. Good job, woo hoo.
I would like to point out, that though the US Government didn’t, Abolitionist, and Northern Radicals DID try to interfere.
I would like to point out, that though the US Government didn’t, Abolitionist, and Northern Radicals DID try to interfere.
Don’t delude yourself. It wasn’t mercy. Samuel Chase knew that they would LOSE in the courtroom. Davis and secession would have been vindicated.
Well, try this on for size...........
Trying to puff-up a supercilious argument you are having with someone else by sending tripe to me?
Just as southern slavers tried to interfere with free soil settlements in Lawrence Kansas.
Interesting how that brought in John Brown, who won a defensive battle against slavers in Kansas. John Brown was overly impressed with the power of the defense, and sought to use that power to free and arm slaves, and then set up defenses to defend himself and the freed slaves from counterattacks by slavers. He noted in Kansas how the slavers howled when they took casualties.
I figure he had read about the Jan Hus and the Hussites which had much the same offensive-defensive approach to combat. Tactically the Hussites were often unable to establish their defensive wagon-lager against an alert foe. RE Lee would also have been familiar with the Hussites.
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