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To: mac_truck
Oh really? You're challenging the anti-slavery pedigree of the Free Soil party and its direct antecedent roots to the defunct Liberty party?

No. Just the abolitionist pedigree you incorrectly ascribe to all members of the Free Soil Party.

Well lets follow the political path of one John Parker Hale.

Follow whatever path you like. As I said previously, some abolitionists were Free Soilers. But not all Free Soilers were abolitionists. See the distinction?

"But I differ from those who charge this baseness on the framers of the Constitution of the United States. It is a slander upon their memory, at least, so I believe. There is not time now to argue the constitutional question at length — nor have I the ability to discuss it as it ought to be discussed. The subject has been handled with masterly power by Lysander Spooner, Esq., by William Goodell, by Samuel E. Sewall, Esq., and last, though not least, by Gerritt Smith, Esq. These gentlemen have, as I think, fully and clearly vindicated the Constitution from any design to support slavery for an hour." - Frederick Douglass, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July," 1852

540 posted on 04/20/2003 8:20:28 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
No. Just the abolitionist pedigree you incorrectly ascribe to all members of the Free Soil Party.

Another scarecrow from Mr. Intellectual Dishonesty. Show me the post where I say this.

BTW We're still waiting for you to acknowledge the "fact" that Spooner's financial patron Gerritt Smith was elected to Congress as a Free Soiler. A fact you neglected to ascertain before attacking the anti-slavery pegigree of the Free Soil party, and are now convienently ignoring.

The facts are there as plain as day. You know them because you've seen them. Yet you continue to make vague assertions that are wholly inconsistent with them. Based upon that, I can only reasonably conclude that you are lying and that you do not wish to concede either that you were wrong in your first claim or that you are lying about that claim right now in an effort to escape having to concede that first error.

Sound familiar?

545 posted on 04/21/2003 8:19:46 AM PDT by mac_truck
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