[John S Mosby]

And motivated by the highly greedy Radical Republicans who pulled Lincoln through an election in which Southern States did NOT participate. This is a major point about the influence of these political manipulators of the abolishing movement (the Puritan liberals of New England— ironically powered by money their own constituencies made in the slave trade shipping business, based out of Boston, MA and financed through NYC and Philadelphia financial houses. All of which were pro-slavery for the massive profits derived).

[Tell It Right]

Don't forget what it was like to be a Christian pushing abolition, and being in one of the "free states". In 1850, the pro-slavery Dims passed the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. That law allowed US marshalls to go into free states and grab blacks, some of whom were never slaves or ever lived in a slave state. All it took was a slave owner to claim he had a slave flee into a free state. Anyone thought to be helping a "slave" was fined or jailed --- in a free state. This was very much like the SCOTUS in 1973 Roe v Wade and 1992 Casey v Planned Parenthood telling pro-life states they couldn't be pro-life.

Then in 1854 SCOTUS did the Dredd Scott case and said that blacks could never be citizens. Again, this was the Dims at the federal level overreaching and telling states they couldn't have Christian policies of treating people like people.

And in the 1860 election, few Republicans said they wanted to abolish slavery federally. Most said they wanted to get the govt out of the way and let the slaves decide. Lincoln said the same thing (like Trump saying let the states decide on abortion). But that didn't stop the Dims from saying that the Republicans were trying to intervene in states' affairs and free all the slaves (very much like todays Dims warning women that the Republicans will end abortion all over the U.S. and make women sit at the back of the bus or whatever). Also, as I pointed out in the earlier post, President-elect Lincoln traveled and assured states that they'd get decide on their affairs, yet Dims in Dim majority states tried to assassinate him multiple times. Just like Dims tried multiple times to assassinate Trump (though before the election).

So I ask you, a century and a half from now, will someone say Trump won because of "highly greedy Radical Republicans" and claim today's pro-lifers are just "Puritan liberals") like you're saying about the Christian abolition movement? I guarantee you, the famed abolitionist, Pastor Theodore Weld, didn't get rich while earning the nickname "the most mobbed man in America". Elites like Thomas Dewey were writing that the Bible supports slavery, and he must be smart cuz he's the president of William and Mary college, dontcha know. But Pastor Weld wrote The Bible Against Slavery, followed by Slavery As It Is in America, and he toured up and down the eastern part of modern U.S., teaching people to turn to God in more than words, in how we treat other people. The pro-slavery folks physically attacked him, but some listened to him and made freeing their slaves part of their Christian holiness living. Thanks to people like him, the number of free blacks grew even before the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment. Elites like Charles Darwin were pushing Darwin's scientific racism (Origin of Species in 1959) while Harriet Beecher Stowe (influenced by Weld's As It Is) was changing people's minds with her Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Don't get me wrong. I don't believe in today's Dims preaching a culture of bitterness towards the past and forever unforgiveness towards the south over slavery. The slave owners are long dead. Nobody pushes slavery or segregation any more. But I do learn from the past. And what I learn is not to look over my shoulder at regions that committed past sins (i.e. the south) but at people who push ideas like people in the past did when comitting atrocities. i.e. Today's "It's not a person. It's just a clump of cells." is just as bad as "It's not a person. It's property."