Posted on 12/30/2002 5:39:35 PM PST by asneditor
Aside from Cuba which was no stranger to slavery to begin with, the rest was an unlikely long shot at best. Try again.
Aside from Cuba which was no stranger to slavery to begin with, the rest was an unlikely long shot at best. Try again.
Sorry. You try again. And read some history. I recommend "Battle Cry of Frreedom" by Dr. James McPherson. It won the Pullitzer prize. Pay special attention to Chapter 3: "An Empire for Slavery.":
"During 1856 hundreds of would-be planters took up land grants in Nicaragua. In August, Pierre Soule himself arrived in Walker's capital and negotiated a loan for him from New Orleans bankers. The "grey- eyed man of destiny," as the press now described Walker, needed this kind of help. His revolution was in trouble. The other Central American countries had formed an alliance to overthrow him. They were backed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, whom Walker had angered by siding with an anti-Vanderbilt faction in the Accessory Transit Company. The president of Nicaragua defected to the enemy, whereupon Walker installed himself as president in July 1856. The Pierce administration withdrew its diplomatic recognition. Realizing that southern backing now represented his only hope, Walker decided "to bind the Southern States to Nicaragua as if she were one of themselves," as he later put it. On September 22, 1856, he revoked Nicaragua's 1824 emancipation edict and legalized slavery again.
This bold gamble succeeded in winning southern support. "No movement on the earth" was as important to the South as Walker's, proclaimed one newspaper. "In the name of the white race," said another, he "now offers Nicaragua to you and your slaves, at a time when you have not a friend on the face of the earth." The commercial convention meeting at Savannah expressed enthusiasm for the "efforts being made to introduce civilization in the States of Central America, and to develop these rich and productive regions by the introduction of slave labor."
-- "Battle Cry of Freedom" pp.113-114 by James McPherson
I think you know all this, you'd just rather push Soviet style disinformation.
Walt
So you finally come out and made an excuse for the slave power.
Good for you to be so honest.
Walt
Article III of the Louisiana Purchase treaty said the following:
The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights and advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
There were slaves, considered property at that time, throughout the whole length of the Mississippi Valley in 1803. They didn't have liberty. The treaty would seem to give their owners the right to settle with their slave property anywhere in the Louisiana territory.
How did Lincoln and the 1820 Missouri Compromise get around this treaty?
I've lived in South Mississippi for 20 years. While in the military from '61 - '82, my family and I lived pretty much in a cross-section of the country; ie, West and East Coasts (CA, WA, VA, MA, SC, FL, RI), New Orleans, St. Paul, Chicago, amoung others. I've seen much more racism in such cities as Chicago, St. Paul and Boston than on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Whites and blacks get along better and work well together a hell of a lot better down here than "up there". In Chicago, whites still beat blacks with baseball bats for walking in certain neighborhoods. Just to keep this light....for our Canadian friends, that's the same as a "neighbourhood". : )
Thanks but no thanks. $11.99 is way too much to pay for a role of Soviet-quality toilet paper.
It won the Pullitzer prize.
So did Maureen Dowd for that matter. In fact, I'm not so sure I consider getting a prize named after history's most famous yellow journalist to be very honorable at all.
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