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2 posted on 11/03/2020 5:21:33 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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3 posted on 11/03/2020 5:24:13 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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>Dolbear Commercial College of New Orleans
>”N.B. No fanatic who thinks it right to steal, rob and murder, need apply.”

The editor makes light of this employment condition.
But it is obviously a reference to abolitionists who were coming south on pretenses to free slaves by force.
This activity, and the failure of the federal government to prevent it, was listed as a primary grievance in most declarations of secession.


5 posted on 11/03/2020 5:39:13 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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