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If the Smithsonian Institution was more interested in promoting a patriotic version of U.S. history, would it put the Abolitionist Founding Fathers on display?
PGA Weblog ^ | 8/23/25

Posted on 08/23/2025 4:28:03 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

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To: BroJoeK
Corwin changed nothing, but it held Border States in the Union long enough to defeat Confederates and abolish slavery via the 13th Amendment.

That makes Corwin an important piece of anti-slavery legislation!

You are unbelievable. An absolute stab in the back to the slaves by the Republicans controlling Congress in 1861, and you are trying to convince people "it was part of a grand scheme to free them! "

And the 13th amendment is a fake amendment passed by tyranny. If the actual will of the people was enacted, there were never enough ratifying states to pass that "amendment."

We all like to pretend it is legitimate, but it was enacted through force, not democracy. It is a humiliation of our Constitutional law.

201 posted on 08/31/2025 10:45:07 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: BroJoeK
Crazy Roger Taney was out of his fricken' mind, a raging lunatic in judicial robes.

And on what basis do you say that? What particular thing did he do that makes you think he was a lunatic?

202 posted on 08/31/2025 10:46:34 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: BroJoeK
Yes, by 1780 there were freedmen who were also freeholders in Massachusetts.

Well I couldn't find any. All I found was that most of the freed men were in Boston.

Some could & did vote. They could also use the courts to, for example, sue for freedom, and at least in theory, could sit on juries.

Do you have any supporting evidence for this contention?

203 posted on 08/31/2025 10:51:08 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Ditto
I'm sure somewhere in you Lost Cause myths you imagined that but I sure have never seen it and I have studied the Civil War era far more than you have.

That is hard to believe, because you often seem so unprepared for information I have revealed to you.

I am reminded of what President Reagan said about Liberals.

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant...

"... It's that they know so much which isn't so."

204 posted on 08/31/2025 10:57:08 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: wardaddy

I’m over any race, to be honest.

What I’m not over, is the Founding Fathers. If they did some act that can be considered “good”, then I’m going to talk about it.


205 posted on 09/01/2025 2:50:02 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: wardaddy

None of this makes any sense at all. I don’t know who is trying to review. Please explain.


206 posted on 09/01/2025 2:51:46 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
"The Ones who kept all their slaves?"

Former. If the rule is good enough for a former slave trader, it's good for Americans too.

They are abolitionists. It is clear that you are not coping well with history that won't bend to what you wish it to be.

207 posted on 09/01/2025 3:34:49 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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