Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Jan_Sobieski

Probably for the same reason that you sanitize the history of the Founders being traitors to their government when they rebelled.

And apparently your condemnation of slave owners convniently ignores George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and the majority of early Presidents.

Or do you condemn them as well?


113 posted on 06/09/2020 11:28:51 PM PDT by Pelham ( Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies ]


To: Pelham

Did those men start a war o overthrow the constitution as “the supreme law of the land”? Did they believe slavery was a moral good and blacks wete ordained by God to be slaves?

Lets look at what those founding fathers thought of slavery;

“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.”
George Washington letter to Robert Morris 12 April 1786

“The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Our opinions agree as to the evil; moral, political, and economical, of slavery.”
James Madison

“What was the origin of our slave population? The evil commenced when we were in our Colonial state, but acts were passed by our Colonial Legislature, prohibiting the importation, of more slaves, into the Colony. These were rejected by the Crown.”
James Monroe

Now let’s look at what the southern rebel leaders thought of slavery;

“African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.”
~Davis

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.”
Alexander Stephens Vice President of the CSA

I think any reasonable person can see the difference in the viewpoints on slavery by the founding fathers of America compares to the founding fathers of the confederacy.


142 posted on 06/10/2020 4:27:48 AM PDT by OIFVeteran ( "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" Daniel Webster)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 113 | View Replies ]

To: Pelham

The difference is that the founders all wrote and advocated for freeing slaves. Democrats political platform was keeping slavery.


146 posted on 06/10/2020 5:22:17 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 113 | View Replies ]

To: Pelham
One other thing I would say is that history is important. Those who don’t understand it are doomed to repeat it. Democrats are the primary antagonists regarding the removal of all civil war and founding father monuments. Democrat intransigence forced war on us in the first place. Democrats then write hagiographies for George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Gentle Giant, Rodney King, etc. but don’t lift one finger to resolve the broken black family. They are the worst form of hypocrites...

Matthew 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
147 posted on 06/10/2020 7:34:07 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 113 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson