[jeffersondem]

“I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.”

So Washington and I do agree.

I did not agree with another poster who made a derogatory reference to “a bunch of slave owners.”

I thought that disrespectful of Washington and other founding fathers. Yes, George Washington owned slaves at the time of his death.

But at least the other poster did not call any of the founders “yapping dogs.”

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "So Washington and I do agree."

Then you must disagree with Confederates who claimed:

"The South is invaded.
It is time for all patriots to be united, to be under military organization, to be advancing to the conflict determined to live or die in defence of the God given right to own the African"
---Richard Thompson Archer (Mississippi planter), letter to the Vicksburg Sun, Dec. 8, 1859."

"African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence.
Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism."
Lawrence Keitt, Congressman from South Carolina, in a speech to the House on January 25, 1860.

"...any man who pretends to believe that this is not a war for the emancipation of the blacks, and that the whole course of the Yankee government has not only been directed to the abolition of slavery, but even to a stirring up of servile insurrections, is either a fool or a liar."
-- The Vidette, a camp newspaper for Confederate Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan's cavalry brigade, November 1862.

jeffersondem: "But at least the other poster did not call any of the founders 'yapping dogs.'

So which of the above quotes would you call "yapping"?