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To: fortheDeclaration
It was Pharoah who wanted to keep the slaves, just like the Confederates, do you defend him?

No, Pharoh was part of God's plan, just as each of us are. You overlook Saint Lincoln's advocation for PERMANENT slavery. Do you agree with him and support permanent slavery?

160 posted on 04/26/2005 7:14:57 AM PDT by 4CJ (Good-bye Henry LeeII. Rest well my FRiend. || Quoting Lincoln OR JimRob is a bannable offense.)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
It was Pharoah who wanted to keep the slaves, just like the Confederates, do you defend him? No, Pharoh was part of God's plan, just as each of us are. You overlook Saint Lincoln's advocation for PERMANENT slavery. Do you agree with him and support permanent slavery?

Lincoln was not advocating permanent slavery, what Lincoln advocated was giving those states that already legally had slaves (it was legal under the Constitution already), the assurance that the 'mean old Abolitionists were not going to come down and take away their slaves.

That assurance was not enough for the slave owners, who split their own Democratic Party over slavery, rejecting Douglas, who did not care anything about slavery either way, and then split the nation over it, because they knew Lincoln would not allow them to take their property into the new terrorities.

It was Lincoln's resistance to the expansion of slavery that led to the South's attempt at secession.

And as Stephens notes in his Cornerstone speech, a right they wrote explicity in the Confederate Constitution.

It is so interesting to watch the Confederates lie about what they were fighting for.

188 posted on 04/26/2005 2:32:58 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Gal. 4:16)
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