[LS]

To further confirm your point, if the other poster would bother to read our "Patriot's History of the United States," he would realize that Pierce, Buchanan, Fillmore, Taylor---ALL of the pre-1860 presidents were "northern men of southern principles" or westerners who were acceptable to the South in the first place. That's indeed how they got elected.

It's amazing that Freepers and so-called "conservatives" would sit here and DEFEND the very party that ORIGINATED solely to protect slavery, the Democrats. That's why I'm a Republican and love the Republicans back to their origin: they were always, first and foremost, against slavery. Yes, they supported tariffs (bad, but a common view held by Madison, Washington, Adams and Hamilton). But their PRINCIPLE was one of freedom, and the Democrats' and their southern allies, no matter how they try to dress up their pig, was one of enslavement.

[pawdoggie]

Amen. Moreover, as Limbaugh and other conservative talk show hosts and pundits are fond of pointing out, the Democrats are still in the enslavement business, trying to make an ever-larger segment of our population dependent on the Federal dole.