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When did they condemn it?

Every time Lincoln opened his mouth from 1854 to 1865, how about? The issue of chattel slavery was his political lodestar from the moment he reentered the public arena in 1854.

I can't believe you're trying to play dumb about this -- that is just disingenuous. Bad faith will get you nowhere.

1,819 posted on 03/28/2004 5:43:23 PM PST by lentulusgracchus (Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)

To: lentulusgracchus

Every time Lincoln opened his mouth from 1854 to 1865, how about? The issue of chattel slavery was his political lodestar from the moment he reentered the public arena in 1854.

But aren't you guys claiming that Lincoln was pro-slavery? I wish you'd get your propaganda straight. lol

I can't believe you're trying to play dumb about this -- that is just disingenuous. Bad faith will get you nowhere

Play dumb about it? I'd like to see where the state of Illinois harassed the southern states about slavery before the war. That's news to me. Maybe they did, but I haven't seen it. It would be great if they did.

1,823 posted on 03/28/2004 6:07:03 PM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)

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