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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: Heyworth
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.

Why don't you tell us then what Representative Collmer said then?

Mr. [Jacob] COLLAMER [R-Vt.]. As the gentleman has called me out, I may be allowed to say that the inhabitants of the town were about three thousand, and the proportion was about one to six.

COLLAMER, Jacob, a Representative and a Senator from Vermont; born in Troy, N.Y., January 8, 1791; moved with his father to Burlington, Vt.; attended the common schools, and graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1810; served in the War of 1812; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1813 and practiced in Woodstock, Vt., from 1813 to 1833; member, State house of representatives 1821, 1822, 1827, 1828; State’s attorney for Windsor County 1822-1824; judge of the superior court 1833-1842; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-eighth Congress), Committee on Public Lands (Thirtieth Congress); appointed Postmaster General by President Zachary Taylor 1849-1850; again judge of the superior court of Vermont 1850-1854; elected in 1855 as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1861 and served from March 4, 1855, until his death in Woodstock, Windsor County, Vt., November 9, 1865; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Thirty-fourth Congress), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty-seventh through Thirty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Library (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses); interment in River Street Cemetery.

The Representative from the State of Vermont confirmed the anecdote from the Representative from Wisconsin. That's exactly what he says

51 posted on 06/19/2006 4:57:21 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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