[jeffersondem]

“On a thread several months ago one of the lost causers was straining to present some sort of tu quoque and stumbled over the established practice of using some slave labor in the building (or in this case rebuilding) the capitol building. by established I mean the practice had been going on since before the commissioning of Washington DC - certainly far before the Lincoln administration.
With larger and more pressing matters on his plate I doubt that Lincoln was even aware of their presence.”

It looks like your tacit acknowledgment that Lincoln did, in fact, use slave labor to help build the Capitol has settled her hash.

I wasn't even going to bring it up until she mentioned it.

[rockrr]

Read it again - for the first time. I seriously doubt that Lincoln was even aware of their employment.

[DoodleDawg]

It looks like your tacit acknowledgment that Lincoln did, in fact, use slave labor to help build the Capitol has settled her hash.

So are you saying that Lincoln himself personally planned, supervised and administered the building of the Capitol dome? In addition to running the country and fighting the Southern rebellion? Talk about being the champ of multi-tasking!