Posted on 09/02/2019 4:35:14 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
The writings of Lincoln are full of defense for the Founders.
bkmk
Though he didn't seem to put much stock into this principle upon which they founded the nation.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "
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Bump.
Why aren’t all men created equal?
Who said they weren't?
Liberals.
Me: The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. The Leftist Democrats did.
I noticed you omitted that part. So I just wanted to know.
And yet he nibbled at the Constitution himself.
Men decide who is created equal and those are who are not equal.
So then you have no problem with the slaves seceeding from the slave states and forming their own Union!
I notice that people often bring it up in efforts to claim the Declaration of Independence was intended to be some commentary on slavery, which it wasn't.
I quote the salient point of the document, and one which people cannot twist into meaning something it was never intended to mean, as they constantly do with that "all men are created equal" part.
Sure, I believe all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, but as it is used today, it is a distraction from the actual intent of the document, which is to argue that "people" have a right to to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them.
It bugs me when people try to make the Declaration of Independence about slavery. It wasn't. It was about independence and why the states had a right to have it.
I think the slaves had just as much right to freedom as anyone, but I am not going to pretend the laws or the people of that era agreed with me.
Out and out broke it many times in the pursuit of his political goals. Left the nation with the relationship between the federal government and the states, very greatly changed from how he found it.
The Federal became the master of the states instead of the servant.
“It bugs me when people try to make the Declaration of Independence about slavery. It wasn’t”
Have to agree with you. The primary author of that document owned over 600 slaves in his life time. He only freed 10 of them, 5 while alive, and 5 in his will after his death.
He certainly was not going to make an issue of slavery in such an important document as the “Declaration of Independence”
Many instances of the press writing of strategic plans “telegraphing” to the southern press.
One being of a so called history writer hiding behind a stump (at night) while Grant discussed plans with his staff. Burnside, later had ordered he be executed in which Grant countermanded those orders and let the SOB go.
I would have shot the SOB right then and there.
Sherman correctly said that if all the press was killed, that they would be getting news from hell by morning...Paraphrasing.
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