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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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