[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "New York was getting 40% of the production, with Washington getting whatever percentage the tariff required, and so the two cities were making more off of Southern production than the actual producers in the South."

Those would be millions of African American slaves, of course, who got nothing, but DiogenesLamp has no concerns for them, only for their "masters" who he thinks were somehow getting ripped off.

It's total nonsense.

[DiogenesLamp]

Those would be millions of African American slaves, of course, who got nothing, but DiogenesLamp has no concerns for them, only for their "masters" who he thinks were somehow getting ripped off.

It didn't matter to the New Yorkers and Washingtonians who were getting that money, so pardon me if I think the pretense that anyone gave a sh*t about them is just theater.

Yeah, I noticed they were willing to extend slavery permanently when they thought they could keep collecting the money, so their defenders can bugger off with their lamentations about the slaves.

Pushing the Corwin amendment just to keep the status quo tells me everything I need to know about the Northern leadership's concern for slaves.