[central_va]

I THINK SLAVERY IS WRONG, IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN WRONG!

Are you really this ignorant? DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT SOMEONE(NON MUSLIM) IN THE USA THINKS SLAVERY IS OK? ARE ALL OF YOU LINCOLN COVEN MEMBERS THIS STUPID?

[rockrr]

And yet you support a regime that was built around the idea of institutional slavery.

[Vermont Lt]

Wow...got your attention.

And no, I think Lincoln was a horrible President. But that is a debate for another days. I never said he was a good guy. In fact, I agree with most of your arguments.

I just think you cannot get past getting your ass whooped to see that the CSA was fighting for the wrong reasons.

[Tau Food]

I THINK SLAVERY IS WRONG, IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN WRONG!

That's easy for you to say, living in the twenty first century. But, in 1850, Jefferson Davis pointed to many positive aspects of slavery as compared to any of the available alternatives to that institution at that time. How were blacks treated in the South? How were they treated in the North? Did the North really have any moral right to attack Southern traditions?

Well, I'll let then Senator Davis speak for himself:

And for what end, sir, is all this aggression? They see that the slaves in their present condition in the South are comfortable and happy; they see them advancing in intelligence; they see the kindest relations existing between them and their masters; they see them provided for in age and sickness, in infancy and in disability; they see them in useful employment, restrained from the vicious indulgences to which their inferior nature inclines them; they see our penitentiaries never filled, and our poor-houses usually empty. let them turn to the other hand, and they see the same race in a state of freedom in the North; but instead of the comfort and kindness they receive at the South, instead of being happy and useful, they are, with few exceptions, miserable, degraded, filling the penitentiaries and poor-houses, objects of scorn, excluded in some places from the schools, and deprived of many other privileges and benefits which attach to the white men among whom they live. And yet, they insist that elsewhere an institution which has proved beneficial to this race shall be abolished, that it may be substituted by a state of things which is fraught with so many evils to the race which they claim to be the object of the solicitude!

So, when you condemn slavery, please keep in mind that context is crucial, always.