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To: DiogenesLamp

From your link:

“It is not at all surprising, such being the character of the Government of the United States, that it should assume to possess power over all the institutions of the country. The agitations on the subject of slavery, are the natural results of the consolidation of the Government. Responsibility, follows power; and if the people of the North, have the power by Congress—”to promote the general welfare of the United States,” by any means they deem expedient—why should they not assail and overthrow the institution of slavery in the South?”

Kind of undercuts the false premise that there was nothing to fear about the future of slavery, doesn’t it?


329 posted on 07/31/2021 7:14:25 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie
What percentage of the total address was that little excerpt which I have no doubt you hunted for, probably with a word search using the word "slave".

This is like people finding those secession statements from three states, and ignoring Virginia's secession statement, which contradicts what they want to show.

Did you bother to read the economic portion of the statement?

340 posted on 07/31/2021 6:07:27 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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