[Non-Sequitur]

You are peddling that? 90% of farmers had no slaves.. You really need to stop the crack.

And you need to stop pulling statistics out of your butt.

[central_va]

DU thread on slave ownership.

I read a little, why don't you join in looks like your kind of people.

[WayneS]

First, thank you for your earlirer corrections RE: my misinformation regarding Delaware and DC, etc.

Secondly, since I was taught the “10% of southerners were slaveholders” figure in school, and since you have deemed that to be incorrect, I am wondering if you can enlighten me as to approxiimately what percentage of southerners ACTUALLY owned slaves in the year 1861; providing the source of your figure, of course.

Finally, I thought you might enjoy these words, from the final verse of the official State Song of Maryland (”Maryland My Maryland”):

“I hear the distant thunder-hum,
Maryland, My Maryland!
The Old Line’s bugle, fife, and drum,
Maryland, My Maryland!
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-
Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! she burns! she’ll come! she’ll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!”