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To: GOPcapitalist
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.

Why are you still waiting for something I acknowledged two days ago back in post 519? Let me copy it again for you: "An abolitionist could be a Free-Soiler and some of them were, but not all Free-Soilers were abolitionists and far from it."

Your 519: An abolitionist could be a Free-Soiler and some of them were, but not all Free-Soilers were abolitionists and far from it. In fact, the most successful Free-Soilers - as in the ones who won election to office and later became the Republicans - were NOT abolitionists.

Your 509: Fact 2: Gerritt Smith, one of the only true abolitionists to ever gain a seat in the U.S. Congress, personally embraced that same book and used it as the philosophical basis of his own abolitionist arguments.

LOL! you pathetic loser. Do you understand now why you're called GOTCrap?

554 posted on 04/21/2003 2:48:39 PM PDT by mac_truck
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To: mac_truck
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.

We're, eh? Did your personality split again, mac? I ask because you are obviously having difficulty comprehending basic english. As I noted way back in post 519, "An abolitionist could be a Free-Soiler and some of them were, but not all Free-Soilers were abolitionists and far from it." That means that Smith, an abolitionist, could be a Free-Soiler, but not that all Free-Soilers were abolitionists.

As for those other quotes, pay close attention to the bolding:

"In fact, the most successful Free-Soilers - as in the ones who won election to office and later became the Republicans - were NOT abolitionists."

"Most" does not mean "all," mac. Or are you too stupid to make even that simple distinction? If so, perhaps you can go plagiarize a dictionary and figure it out.

555 posted on 04/21/2003 3:58:48 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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