Posted on 06/13/2005 6:08:24 AM PDT by sheltonmac
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Sheltonmac ping!
By seconds......
You're slowing down in your old age! ;-)
Or just ignorance generally.
Old Age and BC (Before Coffee)!
bttt
How many of those were actually mulatto children of slave masterrs who inherited the slaves? Many of the free people of color in Louisiana came about their slaves by inheritance didn't they? How many blacks owned white people?
The PC crowd never acknowledges that the United States did not establish slavery in North America, we ended it. Slavery was the product of European Empires trying to make more profit from their colonies. Firmly implanted in the U.S. at the time the Constitution was ratified, efforts to end slavery were culminating when the war between the states started. Any historian worth their salt acknowledges that slavery would have ended before the 19th century without the war, and race relations today would be much better.
More often than not, nations fall from within. The biggest threat this country has ever faced or will ever face is the expansion of federal power over American lives and liberties.
A question solved by violence must remain unsolved forever.
- Jefferson Davis-
I guess waiting another 40 or 50 years might be poor consolation when someone owns you and your family. That being said, the 10th ammendment SHOULD have been defended. It's really too bad that our forefathers picked that particular issue on which to take their stand and to attack a federal fort.
Lincoln defeated the Slaver rebellion which instigators had been trying to provoke for almost a decade prior to the war. By doing so he ensured that the ideals of the revolution were preserved and that the US would become the most powerful force in history to spread Liberty. Had the tyranny of the Slavers been successful Freedom's greatest light would have been extinguished. Thanks Abe.
It is particularly amusing that the Secessionist plot to elect Lincoln and split the nation failed. The foul plot hatched in Charleston to split the Democrat party so that Lincoln would be elected and the South revolt was crushed by those who understood and cared about what America stood for.
You cannot change the outcome of the civil war, it's history. You can however focus much needed attention on our borders which is an issue that we can affect. What happened to the nationalist spirit in this country after 911? Seems we're right back to searching for ways to divide rather than to unite all while ignoring the fact that we are being invaded from the south. Like the song says I guess we have forgotten.
The biggest threats today aren't terrorists or illegal aliens, they comes from within, not unlike the causes of the Civil War.
Unfortunately for your rosy thesis the Slavers were bound and determined that slavery not end. That is EXACTLY why they started the war.
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