Posted on 07/06/2006 7:01:52 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
I've lived many places--Europe and all over America--and have travelled everywhere. Nasties are everywhere but fortunately in the minority. Wonderful people are everywhere--and in the majority!
I think a lot of people were unhappy with that trial, which was in large part why it stopped with that one.
There had been much death, and killing another would not bring back his, or any one else's victims.
On the other hand, there were many who's crimes were never punished. Bedford Forrest at Ft Pillow, any number of soldiers, north and south who killed those who should have been taken prisoner.
There was also much valor. I didn't see the cause of breaking the Union as justifying the starting of war. I suppose that you don't see keeping the Union as sufficient cause for the North to say "Depart Erring Sisters".
It was my thought that the hotheads in the South tried by theft from federarl arsenals, attacks on federal forts, and firing at Ft. Sumpter, to start a fight, with the expectation that other states would join them. They succeeded, and Virginia (among others) joined their effort. On the other hand, when they tried to start that fight, they also created the conditions for the US government to fight back.
I think your timing is off.
My recollection is that the abolitionist movement became a major force long after the trans atlantic slave trade became illegal.
It may be that the sons and grandsons of the shippers, bankers, and traders became abolitionists. In that sense, it was probably a mark of sincerity that they spend the money gained though the slave trade on the abolition of slavery.
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More good evidence. Yesterday, Georgia Republican governor Perdue easily beat a challenge from a guy whose loudest campaign point was a lament for the infamous 1950s segregationists' confederate-themed state flag. Hooray for Georgia. The current flag incorporates the less-known Confederate flag. The one that's less known by KKKers, race car fans plus the Dukes of Hazard and other inhabitants of Hazard county.
Bye bye flag. Georgia has spoken. 
The flip side of your argument is that only after the trade in slaves was restricted to domestics, did the southern slave owners decide that it was a practice worth fighting for.
Actually, the Northwest Ordinance, restricting slavery in the new states was passed during the time of the Articles of Confederation. To me that suggests that all agreed that slavery was a practice that should be limited, reduced, and cut back. It would have been rather nice if the practice could have been limited (as the Republicans wanted, by restricting slaves in the Territories) until the pro slavery forces were weak enough that it could be abolished. The pro slavery forces didn't want that approach. And the war came.
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don't you get tired of being RIDICULED???
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to ALL: this is why "mr. spin" is the BUTT of inside jokes & is a "target of opportunity" for RIDICULE!
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in LATE 1864, several of "the leading abolitionists" had stock in companies, which were still in the "flesh trade". they had MOSTLY moved their marketplace to BRAZIL.
same people, same companies, same FILTHY slave trade, SAME HYPOCRYTES too. (new englanders have ALWAYS been INTOLERENT & HYPOCRYTES! they still are, with their mostly LILLY-WHITE SCHOOLS, LOUD-mouthed arrogance & condescension!)
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despite the FACT that roosters crow before dawn, the sunrise is NOT caused by chickens crowing. one event simply follows the other.
the WBTS was NOT caused by slavery,or the slavers fervent desire to protect the "peculiar institution"!
150 years of hypocritical, KNOWING,arrogant, SELF-righteous, LIES from the lunatic fringe of "DAMNyankeedom" does NOT make their case any less PHONY, despite how LOUD they scream their KNOWING nonsense.
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No primary sources from the civil war are online.
Just a reality note.
no wonder you seem "lost in the woods". obviously, what you have been reading is 3d,4th,5th hand BILGE from the REVISIONIST schools. (should you decide to go read the sources they claim to have used, you will FREQUENTLY find that they either:
a. never read the source document at all AND/OR
b. they INTENTIONALLY LIED about what it said.
to LEARN anything of VALUE, you must turn OFF your computer & go dig into microfilm/microfische,read dusty tomes in the basement & read the PRIMARY SOURCE material.
to paraphrase Professor Arnold Toynbee: there is NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING, that you can learn from a study of REVISIONIST historiography other than that there is NOTHING of value, that you can learn from studying REVISIONIST historiography!
free dixie,sw
When is Kirk's next Klan meeting?
i'm, otoh, REALLY glad you're here and constantly ranting, as you make converts to the dixie LIBERTY cause each time you post your usual DUMB-bunny hatefulness.
your "shut up" comment the other day to me, made TWO converts to our side. PLEASE tell me to "shut up", more OFTEN, "mr.spin"!
free dixie,sw
The truth about Kirk does drive you crazy! :)
As in the new and improved GA state flag? You are correct Sir, the improvement is indeed "dixie LIBERTY" at her finest.
the BAD NEWS is for the other members of the "DY coven", as you make them look like IGNORANT, arrogant HATERS, as you demonstrably are.
RANT ON, DUMB-bunny!
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you are EVIDENTLY too DUMB to KNOW that lawyers represent people based on their "ability to PAY the BILL", rather than what they believe in/do NOT believe in.
lolrotf AT you, DUMB-bunny!
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