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“In fact, there were no slave-revolts — zero, zip, nada slave revolts, at that time.”

I love it when you play George Hayes to my Marion Morrison.

Reminds me of the time you and I did the unrehearsed comedic skit where you used a couple of typewriter ribbons making the case that Pennsylvania was NOT a northern state. When I said it was a northern state there must have been a million people send me (or thought about sending me) a private email telling me I was a genius.

And remember the time you adamantly said no American had ever used the word “chivvied?” My sides still hurt.

And who can forget when you, for no discernible reason, decided to pick a fight over the term “tally book.” It must have taken only 30 seconds to get the facts but the good clean fun will last a lifetime.

Now you contend that you know more than Jefferson and the Virginia Congress about events surrounding the revolution.

You have made 2017 a rib-tickling year.

jeffersondem: "I love it when you play George Hayes to my Marion Morrison."

We've noted before your affection for old Westerns.

jeffersondem: "...unrehearsed comedic skit where you used a couple of typewriter ribbons making the case that Pennsylvania was NOT a northern state.
When I said it was a northern state there must have been a million people send me (or thought about sending me) a private email telling me I was a genius."

It seems your tally-book is as distorted as everything else you post.
Pennsylvania has long been called "the keystone state":

"In the vote for independence, nine delegates to the Continental Congress were from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
It's said that the Pennsylvania delegation was split; four for independence and four against.
The deciding vote fell to John Morton.... who voted for independence.
Pennsylvania's vote for independence was noted as the keystone vote; the supporting vote for a new government...

...Though the nickname's origin is unknown, it's certain that it was in use around, or shortly after, 1800.
It's reported that Pennsylvania was toasted as "...the keystone of the federal union" at a Republican presidential victory rally for Thomas Jefferson in 1802."

Before 1860 Pennsylvania nearly always voted with Jeffersonian & Jackson Southern Democrats, and those few occasions when PA flipped (i.e. 1840 & 1848) helped elect opposition Whigs (Harrison & Taylor).
Indeed, Pennsylvania's loyalty to the South was epitomized in the 1856 election, when Southern Democrats supported Doughfaced Pennsylvania Democrat James Buchanan for president and, on election, Buchanan supported the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision effectively outlawing abolition.
All of which you could easily acknowledge, if you weren't so busy tickling your own funny-bone.

But in 1860 everything changed.

jeffersondem: "And remember the time you adamantly said no American had ever used the word “chivvied?”
My sides still hurt."
And who can forget when you, for no discernible reason, decided to pick a fight over the term “tally book.”
It must have taken only 30 seconds to get the facts but the good clean fun will last a lifetime."

And yet to this day, I've never seen those words used by any real person other than jeffersondem, and that's assuming you are.

jeffersondem: "Now you contend that you know more than Jefferson and the Virginia Congress about events surrounding the revolution.
You have made 2017 a rib-tickling year."

No, I've simply corrected your numerous errors on this subject by reference to facts of history.
For example, your erroneous claims notwithstanding, that Virginia Declaration you quoted said nothing about "domestic insurrections."
Nor did Jefferson himself ever say "domestic insurrections" meant slave revolts.

But, in matching your own good humor, I'll take your words here to mean you just enjoy pulling everyone's leg on these matters.