[Heyworth]

Sorta like his namesake, faced with anything like actual opposition, Stand doesn't. Press him to actually put up any anything like the proof for his claims that he insists on anyone opposed to him having, he'll resort to that standard (and tedious) tirade that you can find a thousand times over on FR. Believe me, I've been trying for two months to get him to prove (or at least provide a single bit of evidence for) his crackpot theories about "8-row mule-drawn cottonpicking machines" that would have ended slavery by 1875 if only the DAMNYANKEES hadn't burned down the massa's house.

[capitan_refugio]

stand and I have discussed the agricultural technological revolution before. stand has a point that mechanization would have led, eventually, to the demise of slavery - on purely economic grounds. The point I have made in reply was that, even after the ACW ended, cotton was largely hand-picked, and human labor intensive, almost up through WWII - nearly 80 years later. Tobacco was not significantly different. I do not see any substantiation for the contention that there would have been a "technological revolution" in southern agriculture, that would have led to the demise of slavery. Indeed, I believe the reliance on slave labor would have led to a greater entrenchment of the institution, just as the availablity of cheap paid labor delayed technological developments. However, as it is a pure hypothetical argument, it can neither be totally proved nor totally disproved. One can only cite what actually happened and reason from there.

[stand watie]

i did post proof that any educated, INTELLIGENT, FAIR-minded person would accept.

ALL here know that you do NOT fit that description.

NOTHING, no matter how well researched, will satisfy you, if it proves that the damnyankees (and particuliarly the lincoln coven of thugs) were SELF-RIGHTEOUS, STUPID,ARROGANT,IGNORANT, CRIMINAL,RACIST,SELF-SERVING, POWER-HUNGRY,CRUEL or, for that matter, that they were ever less than perfect.

you are either a TROLL and/or one of the MOST dedicated of the drinkers of the damnyankee poison KOOL-AID in the world. further, you appear to have swallowed the REVISIONIST/LEFTIST bait, hook, line & sinker.

but as i''ve said numerous times: RANT ON! (you TOO serve the TRUE CAUSE.)

free dixie,sw