“A bill to prohibit slavery might have passed the House. But it certainly would have been filibustered to death in the Senate.”
Ah, further proof that the word “Senate” is Latin for loathsome low IQ pieces of excrement who could not hold any other job.
I think, Da Coyote, you suffer from the same ailment as all snowflakes. That is, you feel so enlightened that all 17th and 18th people were stupid. You try to put 21st mores on them, rather than remember that they were a product of their time, not ours.