Posted on 01/19/2023 3:06:39 PM PST by daniel1212
Interesting, I knew nothing about that. I remember reading it on a micro-phish reader, it was a news story or something.
If I was bet, it was at the public library, I was a nerd and hung out there a lot.
Mexico ended slavery in 1829. However, you could still buy slaves as late as the 1870s as slavery rings were still capturing Indians in the US for sale in Northern Mexico.
Lincoln caused Federal power to grow far larger than the framers ever intended. He created the leviathan that is subjugating us today.
The Fugitive Slave Act allowed for government intervention, but like a dropped dollar bill the escaped slave was snatched up and hauled back to the plantation, privately.
A lot of people are unaware that the "Fugitive Slave Act" only codified in Federal law what the US Constitution already required.
Look at Article IV, section 2. It says fugitive slaves must be returned to their masters, but it says it in flowery and euphemistic language.
Power. Wealthy white liberals who control New York and DC keep the racial issues alive because they hold their power as a consequence of getting the black vote en masse.
The same ruling class in 1861 is still using the same tactic today, to hold onto the power they have always held.
They did not. They fought a bloody civil war to forever keep the political class ruling Washington DC in control of all the states.
The war was about power, not slavery, and we know this because the Republican controlled congress passed the Corwin Amendment in March of 1861. The Corwin Amendment made slavery permanent and protected by constitutional law.
Lincoln not only supported the amendment, but pushed it at the states as a means to curtail secession.
So with the Northern power offering permanent slavery in the form of a constitutional amendment, it is irrational to believe the Union invaded the South to stop slavery. They did not.
They didn't fight to free the slaves. They fought to force everyone to be subjugated to the power of Washington DC.
dont forget those that now identify as black.
Whatever you say, Captain.
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