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Lost Cause hypocrisy is still a taboo subject I see. Pity. Y'all have raised it to such a high art.

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Yankee scum - telling lies??

Again, Hypocrisy:

Professing, But Not Practicing Philanthropy

(Column 6)

Summary: The article points out the apparent hypocrisy in the fact that interracial marriages are outlawed in Massachusetts, yet politicians from that state have led the drive to "force such marriages upon the Southern people."

Origin of Article: Constitutional Union

Full Text of Article:

The profession of Yankee philanthropy and freedom from prejudice is a miserable pretext-one specially invented for the occasion. Yankee ingenuity is proverbial, but Yankee hypocrisy is not a whit inferior. By reference to section 5, chapter75, Revised Statutes of Massachusetts, Edition of 1836, we find the following; "No white person shall intermarry with a negro, Indian, or mulatto." By reference to section 1, chapter 76, same edition, we find the following: "All marriages between a white person and a negro, Indian, or mulatto shall, if solemnized within this State, be absolutely void without any decree of divorce or other legal process," and section 21, same edition, says "the issue of said marriage shall be deemed illegitimate."

Now we think the spirit of this statute eminently proper. We commend Massachusetts very highly for enacting it. But what we inveigh against it is this-this statute remains to the present day unchanged and unrepealed, and yet the tendency of Massachusetts is to force such marriages upon the Southern people-such marriages as, by its laws, are declared absolutely null and void, without legal process-in other words, that they are merely a state of concubinage. By the laws of Massachusetts, concubinage or adultery is punished by fine or imprisonment. And here we have, indeed, a fit illustration of Yankee morality and Yankee hypocrisy. Urging the commission of adultery for the purpose of receiving fines for its commission!

For, if Radicalism succeeds, the law of Massachusetts urges the marriage of negroes and whites. But Massachusetts declares such marriages to be nothing but adultery, and punishes that offense by fine! Here we have indeed the crowning point of Yankee ingenuity! But is it any more than we could expect from a people who preached religious freedom to all, and yet sold young girls and ladies, and old men and helpless boys into tropical slavery, because they dared to worship God according to their consciences?-Constitutional Union