The Founding Fathers were at the time a collection of kooks too. King George III would be happy to tell you all about it. But what they had in common is the most important thing - our Rights are a Gift from God, and the abolitionists and Founders agreed on this.
....very much like modern environmentalist whackos........"
You are promoting modern environmentalist whackos and the rest you mentioned with a position that they did not earn and they do not deserve.
As for Charles Dickens, that passage is an irrelevant bait and switch. It doesn't matter what anybody else thought about the abolitionists any more than what the King thought about the Founders or what the tories thought of the Founders. You want me to quote Peter Oliver for you about how whacked out the patriots were? Who cares what Oliver thought. What matters is what the Founders believed in and what others believed in, and if those beliefs matched up.
Abolitionists believed the same as the Founders. Our Rights are a Gift from God. Let's see you say it. "Our Rights are a Gift from God." You say it.
And according to the founders, the right to independence is the most important right. They explained this in a little document called "THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE."
As for Charles Dickens, that passage is an irrelevant bait and switch. It doesn't matter what anybody else thought about the abolitionists any more than what the King thought about the Founders or what the tories thought of the Founders.
It is contemporaneous proof that they were regarded as kooks and loons by the vast majority of the population back during that era.
Our Rights are a Gift from God. Let's see you say it. "Our Rights are a Gift from God." You say it.
"WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them...
In the founders words.