That sounds like a PC pinko term is there ever was one.
"I'm sure if one looked, one could find similar (but not as well-publicized) quotes from Northeasterners with respect to the slave trade, but history has chosen to bury them."
The North had treasonous Copperheads and other pro-slavery rabble, but it was the center of Plantation Inc in South Carolina which triggered the Civil Wa, since they thought their slave based cotton empire was threatened. You know, the side you continue to support, the "Confederates".
"It has already been stated that investment of the Southern dollar saw a higher return when invested in the plantation & slave labor system.."
Is that the method of investment return the Confederate leadership was involved with?
"so it should be no surprise that's where their dollars went, and their rhetoric focused on it's justification as our friends MEspinola, Colonel Kangaroo have pointed out."
Truth hurts?
Are you going to go crying to Admin again like a little rat?
Huh? Are you trying to argue that Charleston or New Orleans is not farther away from London? Are you arguing that passage to New York didn't take half the time? Is the layout of the globe a communist plot?
The North had treasonous Copperheads and other pro-slavery rabble, but it was the center of Plantation Inc in South Carolina which triggered the Civil Wa, since they thought their slave based cotton empire was threatened.
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American government ot use armed force to subjugate the South. If the people of the south want to stay out of the Union, if they desire independence, let them have it.-- April 4, 1861. William Seward to London Times correspondent Russell.
We confess that we intend to trample on the Constitution of this country. We of New England are not a law-abiding community, God be thanked for it! We are disunionists; we want to get rid of this Union.
-- Wendell Phillips, Boston, May 1849.
A great many people raise a cry about the Union and the Constitution. The truth is, it is the Constitution that is the trouble; the Constitution has been the foundaton of our trouble.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
No act of ours do we regard with higher satisfaction than when several years ago, on the rth of July, in the presence of a great assembly, we committed to the flames the Constitution of the United States and burned it to ashes.
-- The Boston Liberator, April 24, 1863
Resolved, That we seek the dissolution of this Union, and that we hereby declare ourselves the friends of a new Confederacy of States, and for a dissolution of the Union.
-- Meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, January 2-4, 1854.
If the church is against disunion, I pronounce the church of the devil! Up with the flag of disunion!
-- William Lloyd Garrison
A dissolution of the Union is what a large portion of the Republicans are driving at.
-- Parson Brownlow, 1858
Why preserve the Union? It is not worth preserving. I hate the Union as I hate hell!
-- Mr. Langdon of Ohio
All this twaddle about preserving the Union is too silly and sickening for anything.
-- The True American, Republican newspaper of Erie, Pennsylvania.
Let us sweep away this remnant which we call a Union.
-- Senator Wade of Ohio, 1855.
Disunion is the sweetest music! What if a State has no right to secede? Of what consequence is that? A Union is made up of willing States, not of conquerors and conquered. Confederacies invariably tend to dismemberment. The Union was a wall built up hastily; its cement has crumbled hastily. Why should we seek to stop seceded States? Merely to show we can? Let the south go in peace.
-- Wendell Phillips, after the first state had seceded, 1860.
From this time forth I consecrate the labor of my life to the dissolution of the Union, nd I care not whether the bolt that rends it shall come from heaven or from hell!
-- Frederick Douglass
In 1848, Seward voted to receive a petition to dissolve the Union.
In 1854, John P. Hale, Chase and Seward voted to receive and consider a petition demanding the dissolution of the Union.
August 23rd, 1851, the New Hampton, Massachusetts Gazette announced that a petition was circulating in that region for the dissolution of the Union, nd that more than one hundred and fifty names of legal voters had signed it. In 1854 New England sent to Congress a petition, numerously signed, prayer for the dissolution of the Union, using these words:
We earnestly request Congress to take measures for the speedy, peaceful, equitable dissolution of the Union.
Gianni note: These are the abolitionists, the good guys. The racist, segregationists, those promoting ethnic cleansing of the North American continent were for military subjugation (or as they called it, enforcing the laws and holding government property).
Truth hurts?
Truth is just that - truth. It doesn't hurt me, and I don't refuse to acknowledge it, like you.
Are you going to go crying to Admin again like a little rat?
Are you going to call me a racist again?