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To: mac_truck
No useless we were speaking of black codes in the north. Please follow along if you're going to interject nonsensical one liners. Vermont's codes, unlike sister union states Illinois, Ohio, and Oregon, didn't ban the existence of blacks outright but they did have other laws against blacks.

Also you may want to look at this. From the Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, even the Vermont representation admits that while slavery was 'abolished' in Vermont, it existed many years later. But heck what could he know? He was just there. I'm sure you've got something to refute eyewitness accounts from a US Representative...

You must have meant Vermouth..or whatever it is you drink for breakfast.

No, I do my best not to emulate the corrupt drunkard that was the 18th President...

48 posted on 06/19/2006 4:25:40 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: billbears
From the Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, even the Vermont representation admits that while slavery was 'abolished' in Vermont, it existed many years later

The anecdote from the Congressional Globe doesn't say that at all. It's about a Vermont farmer being willing to compensate southern slaveowners for their slaves, but not wanting them in his town.

50 posted on 06/19/2006 4:39:44 PM PDT by Heyworth
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To: billbears
Vermont's codes, unlike sister union states Illinois, Ohio, and Oregon, didn't ban the existence of blacks outright but they did have other laws against blacks. Also, you may want to look at this.

Did you even bother to read the link you provided before posting your screed? There's a whole section in there on Vermont , and not a single word about any specific laws passed against blacks. I guess you were in such a hurry to make your point you didn't read past the chapter headings on the homepage huh?

Vermont abolished slavery in 1777 when it became a free state. It affirmed that principle when it joined the Union in 1791. You slander Vermont's good name when you assert this information is "useless" or otherwise mention it in conjunction with Black Codes. Now either substantiate your [false] claim against Vermont or retract it forthwith.

54 posted on 06/19/2006 5:30:49 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
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