Wish I could have been a part. They put me on, then kicked me off right after the election to make room, I think, for Ned Ryun. Supposedly they gave me a more permanent spot on the Board of Education Sciences, from which Biteme couldn’t fire me, but turns out because of my curriculum, I had a financial conflict of interest & had to resign.
Anyway, there is a passage from Calhoun that most people overlook, where he said something to the effect of “We have a right to hold our slaves and to hold them in peace” meaning free fromn criticism or challenge. His was the first, that I know of, of “speech codes.”
That’s very interesting.
I think you would have made a great addition to the team; I do not know of Ned Ryun. (I don’t think)
As to “hold them in peace”, I think that there is a real possibility that they probably got tired of being “harassed” (Which is probably how they viewed it) by people in the press after the Founding, as well as abolitionist activists.(both from the north)
Not to mention all of those abolitionist laws passed by members of the Founding generation in northern states. They weren’t perfect but their intent and trajectory are clear. That all had to culminate and make southern slaveholders feel isolated.