I stand corrected. It appears that the North did offer to buy them.
Okay, there is now no thread of sanity on this quote from him.
What am I missing.
First you suggest that he is sane for suggesting it then when you read that there was such a plan, you call him nuts.
I would think that such an offer — before the outbreak of war and the destruction of southern property — mad some merit and I think that Paul is still more right than wrong even though I don’t agree with him all of the time.