Posted on 07/05/2020 4:23:15 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
Give them one way tickets back to Africa again.
"The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. [...] Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it—when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell."
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.
This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science."
That is what happened in Miami when the Cubans overwhelmed the city in two waves in the 60s and 70’s. Now the Cubans own a major portion of the economy there.
Great idea!
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Communists make THEIR slave get down on BOTH knees.
You Resist when commies are in power and its a bullet to the back of the neck.
Libtards bleat “But it Isnt Fair!!” and the commies put THEM up against the wall first (Commies don’t share power).
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It was, at least from the Southern standpoint.
That's why they call it: The War of Northern Aggression?
Personally I prefer the more accurate "War of Southern Rebellion". But that's just me.
What is your point? Ones man’s speaking for himself. You can refer to the Confederate Constitution to find the principles the new government was founded upon and I would doubt that those sentiments were written into it.
That is an amazing quote I plan to remember!
One man? Seriously? He was the vice president and one of the founders. You think the Nazi’s put the Holocaust in their constitution?
Thats what they want!
And those evil lying demagogues need to be removed first, and the true history of our country taught again.
Yep, seriously, since most Southerners did not own slaves.
I have studied the buildup to the Civil War, and it is true, the victors write the history. There was a firestorm of stupidity that led up to the Civil War, just like what is going on now, and slavery was only one of the issues. It was, first and foremost, orchestrated chaos and division, just like it is now.
Unless you look at the Constitution. Which would not have been ratified without the 3/5 compromise. The Slave states wanted slaves counted 100%. The Free states wanted 0%. Slavery is in the Constitution. Constitution would not have been approved by the Slave states if not for the slave compromise
True, but beginning with the NW Ordinance, and almost all other national documents, it was clear from 1785 on that slavery was to slowly disappear.
What changed in 1793 was the invention of the cotton gin, which all of a sudden gave slavery massive new profitability.
But as late as the 1850s Lincoln and others still believed in the “natural limits of slavery,” that it would just disappear because it wasn’t profitable.
What Lincoln and most others either willfully or unintentionally ignored was that a) state governments fully backed slavery and marginal profitability losses vs. industry weren’t going to overcome those hidden subsidies; and b) that slavery proved quite functional in southern industry, not to mention the fact that the western lands (TX, KS could support slavery just fine).
My point was, the “understanding” between the regions was that nationally slavery was to be put on a path to extinction and that this would be peaceful due to economics. The economics changed, while the southern states made slavery both hereditary (mid-1700s) and subsidized it heavily.
This is written in the Confederate Constitution:
ARTICLE IV
Section 2
(3) No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs,. or to whom such service or labor may be due.
Section 3
(3)In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.
“Slavery is in the Constitution.”
I did not say that slavery was not in the Constitution. I said that future slave trade had been banned in the Constitution.
I specified the sentiment expressed by the man in the speech. It is not in the Confederate Constitution.
From Lincoln’s first Inaugural address:
“Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered...I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”
The reason apprehension existed among Southerners was the rhetoric of the crazed abolitionists who not only wanted to forcibly free the slaves, but punish the entire South severely for having them, although slavery existed in some places up North. The abolitionists were calling for bloody slave uprisings in the South. Lincoln, before the war ended, picked up some of their rhetoric when he postulated that perhaps a death was required per lash inflicted on each slave.
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