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To: BroJoeK; woodpusher; x; ProgressingAmerica; DiogenesLamp; Ultra Sonic 007; Renfrew; central_va; ...

“Lincoln said nothing about globalist slaveocrats unhappy with tariff rates or Fugitive Slave laws.”

Are you sure Lincoln said nothing about Fugitive Slave laws?

Lincoln is on record as supporting the Fugitive Slave Clause and supporting it through legislation.

Said he in his first inaugural address:

“There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor. The clause I now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its provisions:

“No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.

“It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution—to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause “shall be delivered up” their oaths are unanimous. Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath?”

I’m not being critical of you. There is no way you could have known what Lincoln said in his first inaugural address.


283 posted on 09/06/2023 5:16:59 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem
quoting BJK: "Lincoln said nothing about globalist slaveocrats unhappy with tariff rates or Fugitive Slave laws.”

jeffersondem: "Are you sure Lincoln said nothing about Fugitive Slave laws?
Lincoln is on record as supporting the Fugitive Slave Clause and supporting it through legislation."

Sure, because that's how your mind works, you must take my words regarding young Whig Congressman Lincoln's 1848 speech lambasting Democrat Pres. Polk's invasion of Mexico, in which Lincoln said nothing about slavocrats disgruntled over tariffs or Fugitive Slave laws, and you apply my words to Pres. Lincoln's 1861 Inaugural in which he did indeed, discuss such matters.

What was your objection before? Irrelevant and immaterial?

jeffersondem: "I’m not being critical of you. There is no way you could have known what Lincoln said in his first inaugural address."

{sigh}

285 posted on 09/07/2023 2:39:20 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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