Dear Glenn Beck: Confederate Constitution mentions the word slavery ONE time.

Confederate Constitution ^ | 6/25/10 | Central_VA

[central_va]

Open Message to Mr. Beck (self proclaimed historian). Tonight on your TV show you said that you read the Confederate Constitution and I paraphrase "it had slavery written all over it, all about slavery blah blah blah". You are incorrect sir, I did a word search on the document and the word slavery appears "one" time. Everyone can try it for themselves at the link provided below.

CS Constitution

Can never trust a Yankee, even a goofy entertaining one.

[wtc911]

I have never seen Glenn Beck. I do know how to read.

[Crim]

“The word slavery appears one time. The term slave does appear often, I agree.”

And you hung your hat on that?

sheesh.

[patriot preacher]

Do you consider 1807 “well into the 1800s?”

That’s when the last slave was legally imported into the USA, with the trade thereafter classified as piracy.
Although we unfortunately had to wait till the reign of the Illinois Butcher to hang one of the pirates.

The Constitution protected slave importation until 1808, and Congress duly passed a law that prohibited it on and after January 1 of that year.

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In a word, YES. Furthermore, as you so astutely point out, importation of slaves AFTER 1807 was “classified as piracy.” Sorta like the sale of alcohol after the ratification of the 18th Amendment in 1918 was “classified as illegal.” Therefore it didn’t happen, did it? :-)

My point is that the importation of slaves had become a lucrative market on which many had become dependent, and for a number of years AFTER the ban on “legal importation,” the practice continued, with the traders simply going offshore, and carrying on the practice — illegally. Piracy, indeed.

[southernsunshine]

ARTICLE THIRTEEN, No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.

How is it that the original version of the 13th Amendment (above) is so often overlooked?

[IncPen]

Is it your position that we’d be better off had the Civil War not been fought?

[kalee]

ping

[central_va]

Is it your position that we’d be better off had the Civil War not been fought?

Yes, the USA could have continued without the south, peacefully. The war was totally unnecessary.

[IncPen]

So the United States would let the South disengage, with the slaves.

You’re ok with that?

[kbennkc]

I was taught all human beings are now and have always been children of my Father in Heaven . This nonstop apologia for the for the south's part in slavery is as disgusting as it is unnecessary . I have red sand stone from NC in my blood and Alabama cotton and peanuts in my soul . Can the Yankee talk . Libertarian-Conservatives can debate and still call each other Americans .

[central_va]

You’re ok with that?

Slavery died in all the world without war, except in the USA. The Civil War caused so much animosity and racial problems that we still can't deal with it properly to this day.

[central_va]

Nobody is defending slavery.

[esquirette]

Slavery remains alive and well in Africa to this very day. Entire ministries are devoted to buying back the captured slaves. Here is one

http://www.ecmafrica.org/36223.ihtml

[wardaddy]

Beck panders to blacks.

Period.,

He would make a fine freeper.

/s

[kbennkc]

Nobody is defending slavery. Good because all that do so , might be earning themselves a seat next to the real slavers in a very hot place for eternity , if one believes in that sort of thing .

At the risk of being rude by ignoring your answer I ask rhetorically , How is attacking those who wielded the terrible swift sword that ended slavery , different than defending slavery ?

[central_va]

I repeat: Slavery died in all the world without war, except in the USA. The Civil War caused so much animosity and racial problems that we still can’t deal with it properly to this day.

[IncPen]

Slavery died in all the world without war, except in the USA. The Civil War caused so much animosity and racial problems that we still can't deal with it properly to this day. You know nothing of the sort. Your position is that had the Southern states seceded and set up a separate country, labored by slaves, we'd have been better off. Tell that to a black man. I'd rather fight 100 Civil Wars than consign another human being to slavery for even one day. You're a racist and a coward. And I'll tell you something else: Glenn Beck may have trouble counting words, but I'll take his history over yours any day. And your twisting of Abraham Lincoln is diabolical.

[wardaddy]

well then ask the sanctimonious hypocritical race baiting self righteous anti- southern bigot Yankees and ABMs here to STHU

and we can all go back to hugs and kisses

these very folks like Beck and several freepers have demonnized my region and heritage for about 20 years no and some of us don’t intend to just roll over

and neither would you

it’s all part of the same white history is criminal by default mindset and it cripples our ability to deal with anything that has a non white, non Christian , non male or non heterosexual component to it

which in today’s world means about everything

we are living a tyranny of the minority even as we become one

[central_va]

The Civil War sped up the physical end of slavery by a few decades.

At what cost?

• The concept of autonomous states, the republic died.
• Segregation. KKK backlash, reconstruction.
• An ever growing corrupt Federal Government, squishing states rights.

Not worth it in my opinion. A natural peaceful end would have caused no scarring.

[TigersEye]

Illinois Butcher™ Over 600,000 served.

So, all 600k deaths were southerners?

Can't even trust central_va.

[BatGuano]

You are making a literal translation of Beck’s words. You are not “being kind” you are being stupid! I don’t have to download the CS Constitution and count the “s” word, it would be a waste of my time. You showed your slip when you opened with “cult” and “misguides”.

I’m sure that he speaks in this sense; the document has slavery written all over it is the same as saying your face has guilty written all over it. I know that your face does not have anything written on it but your facial expression has the look of guilt. A company (or country in our case) drowning in red ink is not floundering and gasping for air in a vat of red ink but we all know what the expression means. Go somewhere else.