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To: thatdewd
? The very generals, leaders, and soldiers they laud as "champions of equality and freedom" were planning, organising, and carrying out a campaign of delberate GENOCIDE. The whole thing makes these neo-unionist extremists seem somewhat "less than genuine" in their professed beliefs.

Absolutely. It is for reasons such as these that Lysander Spooner, the great legal philosopher of the abolitionists, denounced their claims to have abolished slavery and saved the union as a "sham" and a "fraud." The abolition of slavery that Spooner spent his life seeking was attained after the war. Yet he denounced it because it was so sinfully achieved and by such tyrannical means. That speaks volumes about those who claim The Lincoln was a morally guided emancipator and friend of liberty.

150 posted on 02/08/2003 1:33:21 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
Absolutely. It is for reasons such as these that Lysander Spooner, the great legal philosopher of the abolitionists, denounced their claims to have abolished slavery and saved the union as a "sham" and a "fraud." The abolition of slavery that Spooner spent his life seeking was attained after the war. Yet he denounced it because it was so sinfully achieved and by such tyrannical means. That speaks volumes about those who claim The Lincoln was a morally guided emancipator and friend of liberty.

Looks like Spooner was an idiot.

155 posted on 02/08/2003 3:04:56 PM PST by #3Fan
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