[7thson]

You are so full of it. Don’t give me that crap about Southern liberty when the south was keeping millions in slavery!

[robowombat]

So, the institution of slavery was present in the thirteen colonies at the time of the Revolution and the states where slavery existed entered the federal union as such. Slavery was a legal and recognised institution and the economy of the South rested upon it. Hypocrites such as yourself who had no vested interest in the condition of the slave states could afford to dine out on their virtue. It costs t nothing and produced a warm glow of sanctimony not unlike what modern leftists feel as they contemplate what wonderfully virtuous folks they are.

[csmusaret]

Don’t give me that crap about Southern liberty when the south was keeping millions in slavery!

I guess it depends on whose liberty is in question.

[Albion Wilde]

You are so full of it. Don’t give me that crap about Southern liberty when the south was keeping millions in slavery!

You fail to consider the economic realities of the South as it was then. A small number of people owned large plantations and slaves. A large number of white people lived rural agricultural lives as sharecroppers or small businesspersons. The minority plantation owners produced the commodities most under scrutiny by the North, since those commodities of cotton, tobacco, textile dyes and other agriproducts "fed" the North. I am not defending slavery as a moral system or an economic system. But I will compare today's average American wage-earner to the average non-slave-holding Southerner of the times. And I will compare today's corporate owners and shareholders to the South's plantation owners and textile exporters of the times.

Are you, if an average wage-earner, deserving of moral scorn because today's corporate classes favor importing illegal aliens as cheap labor? Are you responsible for the tiny handful, relative to our population, of Governors, Mayors, Senators and Congressmen who have made "sanctuaries" for illegal aliens so they may be economically exploited in today's economy? If you believe you are deserving of such scorn, should you be punished and painted with a broad brush of human rights violations for the next century and a half, relinquishing your state's rights or even your national rights so that Mexicans can rule this territory in retaliation for this crime against illegal hispanic immigrants who are actively being economically exploited by a small handful of today's "plantation owners"?