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To: fortheDeclaration
To hear you guys tell the story, it was the South that was against slavery!

28 Feb 1861 - President Jefferson Davis VETOED a bill that attempted to allow importation of slaves.

82 posted on 04/25/2005 1:52:49 PM 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
To hear you guys tell the story, it was the South that was against slavery! 28 Feb 1861 - President Jefferson Davis VETOED a bill that attempted to allow importation of slaves.

Wow!

Think that protecting the economic value of the slaves they already had anything to do with that?

90 posted on 04/25/2005 2:45:55 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Gal. 4:16)
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