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?

quoting BJK regarding "all men are born free and equal": "You missed a key distinction, and it begins with understanding that the same "flowery language" appears in several important documents of the time,"

DiogenesLamp: "Unless they specifically say they were speaking of slaves held in bondage, the only rational interpretation was that they meant "White" men, and nobody else."

Says DiogenesLamp.

Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice William Cushing disagreed with you in 1783, and so did many others at the time.

Cushing was highly regarded by not just John Adams, but also by Pres. Washington, who in 1790 appointed Cushing to SCOTUS and again in 1796 appointed Cushing to be SCOTUS Chief Justice.
The Senate confirmed him, but Cushing held the post only a few days before resigning, citing health reasons.
So Cushing continued to serve as associate justice under Presidents Adams, Jefferson and Madison, until his death in 1811.

It's clear that our Founding Fathers agreed with Cushing, and not with the b*ll sh*t posted by DiogenesLamp.

quoting BJK: "Corwin changed nothing..."

DiogenesLamp: "I disagree.
It revealed that Republican politics was just a smoke screen for the masses.
What they really believed in was the continuation of that money from the South."

Then you disagree with Pres. Lincoln, who said Corwin changed nothing in his understanding of the US Constitution.

As for the rest, that's simply your Lost Causer Marxist fantasies, not real history.

Ahh, yes the NW Ordinance as well. TJ had many direct legal confrontations with slavery outside the home.

I am admittedly touchy about this; pretty much any time the Founders are disrespected.

"Cushing was highly regarded by not just John Adams, but also by Pres. Washington, who in 1790 appointed Cushing to SCOTUS and again in 1796 appointed Cushing to be SCOTUS Chief Justice."

That can't be. He was rewarded??? The 1783 Massachusetts slavery decision is said to be judicial activism, the decision was out of bounds, and of course none of the Founders were opposed to slavery - we are led to believe.

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