Posted on 03/02/2003 7:59:22 AM PST by groanup
It's not my claim, it was the law at the time. As for this population 'explosion' that you claim, if you would bother to look at the native-born numbers, you'd find that of the 7,628 blacks you are so happy to wave around, only 70 were not native born. So apparently blacks were having babies during the decade of which you speak (I know that's going to come as a shock to your lincoln myth of the ever busy underground railroad) and the population growth from immigration is not 50% but only .9%.
We'll not even get into the numbers of free black population between the ages under one year to fourteen. For the number of free blacks in that age frame, for your number of 50% growth by immigration they all walked there by themselves, even if they weren't born yet!!
Running a stop light is illegal. Does that mean that nobody ever does it?
Yeah. The first one, which protected slavery, as well as the second one.
If you're correct then it's a good thing that he put more effort into the second one, isn't it?
Apparently the south was more determined to uphold their 'traffic laws' than the North was, weren't they?
Now you've gone and done it. Were those black slave owners living in the north or the south? If they were living in the south, were they among the blacks that wanted to or did join the Confederate Army?
Another little touted FACT is that nativehyphenamericans also owned slaves. Until I became aware of that, I thought the nativehyphenamericans were busy living peacefully as one with nature, massacreing other tribes, and selling land they didn't own to the evil white man.
Go in peace, my friend, lest you too be drug into the dismal swamp of defending the obvious to the jeers of the oblivious.
FRee dixie,sw
Did he though? His efforts achieved exactly the same thing for both of them - 2/3rds approval for both amendments in congress.
Just out of curiosity, is that your response to everything? I know you have claimed otherwise, but your track record speaks for itself. Whenever it is pointed out that the yankees did something wrong, you respond "well, the south did it too." Whenever it is pointed out that Sherman left hundreds of miles of burnt cities behind him, you respond "well, the south burnt a single town in pennsylvania." If this is indeed truly how you think, it is indicative that your sole concept of morality extends from some arbitrarily erected relationship you have drawn between north and south. And quite frankly, I find that very sad and deserving of pity.
But only two states ratified the first amendment. If President Lincoln was such a strong supporter of that amendment, as you claim he was, you would think that he would have pushed harder for ratification. On the other hand, passage of the second 13th Amendment was added to the Republican platform with President Lincoln's enthusiastic support and he lobbied for passage of the amendment out of Congress and saw it ratified by 21 states before he was murdered.
That is complete and utter nonsense and there is not a shred of evidence that you could possibly provide to support it.
There are those here who disagree with that approach, especially when it diminishes someone they've deified.
They're not hard to recognize.
But I bet you already knew that !
Save your pity, I doubt that it is sincere anyway. I point out the south's many failings when you sothron types start hammering away at the south for problems that were worse in the south, just to provide balance. If billbears wants to paint the North as racist without mentioning worse practices down south then he is free to do so, but I will challenge his implication that the North had some sort of monopoly on racist laws. I don't deny the racist practices in the North. I do believe, and I feel that the record shows, that as bad as things were up North they were as bad or worse down south. Sorry if being reminded of that offends you.
slavers were RIFE in the north;denying that FACT is not as important as opening your eyes to the TRUTH. you are SMARTER than that.
free dixie,sw
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