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To: nolu chan
I don't know anyone arguing that slavery was right or just...

Try Jefferson Davis or Robert Lee.

"We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Law in nature tells us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude. Freedom only injures the slave. The innate stamp of inferiority is beyond the reach of change. You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables him to be." -- Jefferson Davis, March 1861

"Considering the relation of master and slave, controlled by humane laws and influenced by Christianity and an enlightened public sentiment, as the best that can exist between the white and black races while intermingled as at present in this country, I would deprecate any sudden disturbance of that relation unless it be necessary to avert a greater calamity to both." -- Robert Lee, January 1865

498 posted on 09/14/2003 4:27:21 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
[nc] I don't know anyone arguing that slavery was right or just...

[non-seq] Try Jefferson Davis or Robert Lee.

I did not know Davis and Lee were Freepers. I suppose Lincoln, et al, are on DU.

"People often ask, why make such a fuss about a few niggers?"
- Abraham Lincoln CW 3:495

He said he did not want "the Territories transformed into asylums for slavery and niggers."
- Abraham Lincoln CW 3:487

541 posted on 09/15/2003 1:16:24 AM PDT by nolu chan
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