[rdb3]

I'm sorry but I think your line of thinking is the stupid one. There is no logic to it, all feelings and emoting.

Hold on. I answered a post of yours using sound logic and acknowledgement of the law as my basis. Yet here you move this to the personal level by saying that my line of thinking is "stupid," and that I'm "emoting," even though what I said was dispassionate.

Imagine that.

[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "Hold on. I answered a post of yours using sound logic and acknowledgement of the law as my basis. Yet here you move this to the personal level by saying that my line of thinking is "stupid," and that I'm "emoting," even though what I said was dispassionate."

Gee what was I to make of this "Statements like that are unbelievable. Just a cursory knowledge of the law of the land should prohibit one from even making that argument!"

No you did not use the word stupid that is true but I differ with your implication that you were using logic. I notice you did not answer my question. I will recap. From your post I gather you think the slave was not a citizen of the South and could not have fought for the South willingly. But the slave was also a slave in the Union so where does that put the slave using your line of reasoning?